Example sentences of "he had [art] good [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had a good fairy on hand he would ask her to wave her wand and change British spending habits . |
| 2 | He had a good idea of what was coming . |
| 3 | He had a good head of dark brown hair , and it looked as if he knew a decent barber . |
| 4 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 5 | As this was something of a lovers ' lane , he had a good chance of catching a couple knobbing on the back seat And Steve , as I 'd already found out for myself , always did like a bit of voyeurism . |
| 6 | He had a good tuck in last night but brung it up . ’ |
| 7 | I know , he did n't really have a good he had a good day in the Mail on Sunday , though . |
| 8 | He had a good look at it and said part of the pedestal had been mended at some time which took away a lot of the value . |
| 9 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 10 | The later epitaph suggests that he had a good knowledge of canon law : ‘ legis / doctorem tenuit illa ’ ( namely Gallia ) . |
| 11 | He had a good laugh at that He thought it was a terminally good idea , terminally funny , He said there was no way Michael would do it ‘ Duty before nookie , ’ he said . |
| 12 | He had a good degree in art history , and had he not gone in for politics he might have made a name for himself as an art historian . |
| 13 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 14 | Andy Hare missed gaining his card by 3 shots , so at least he had a good go at it . |
| 15 | And he had a good time with the assembled newshounds , especially when one got him off and running with a question about how he felt about winning a national championship . |
| 16 | Bruce was not so lucky , but in this particular year , he had a good week with his stock prices and could afford to lose a few shillings on the nags as he called them . |
| 17 | He had n't known where to go , but he had a good instinct for direct , and he 'd reckoned as how a gateway had to be in the shell , far away from the heat sink as could be . |
| 18 | He had a good chain of cinemas , as well as a strong network of contacts in Central Europe . |
| 19 | He had a good roof over his head , clean sheets , enough to eat and a bottle of stout in his hand . |
| 20 | ‘ What will he do , ’ yelled Rafiq , as if he had a good answer to this question , ‘ when he comes ? ’ |
| 21 | He had a good eye for a defensible site , had St Kentigern . ’ |
| 22 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 23 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 24 | Allen stole forward to a point where he had a good view of the Waste . |
| 25 | He had a good view of the long shadowy main corridor . |
| 26 | Doyle crouched behind a hedge , a hundred yards from the house , in a position where he had a good view of the road in both directions . |
| 27 | He had a good view of the main road and the side track that climbed to the row , and he could see a part of the buildings themselves , small and neat and quiet . |
| 28 | He had a good ear for language , and was a talented scholar , translator , and lyric poet . |
| 29 | His taste in films , plays , books and music was far more decided than her own , though she would not admit that it was superior : she thought that , given time , she could outdo him , but as he had a good start on her in time , she was glad to listen to him . |
| 30 | For this purpose the employer must show that he had a good reason for sacking the employee . |