Example sentences of "[art] good [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm my father and Michael had got to know the maids in in the Plas but Michael had grabbed the the the the good looking of the parlour maid and my father had to make do with the cook . |
| 2 | I thought about you , about what time was it , about ten o'clock and I thought well it 's no good gasping for air , she 'll soon be able to have some yeah . |
| 3 | If you generally want the views of the public it is no good trying to false those views through a straight jacket of your own to make it what you think there views should be unless of course they go right over the top in which they I do n't think that 's happened so far . . |
| 4 | No good suggesting to the people they release Barrabas cos they said , we do n't want Barabbas . |
| 5 | No , there 's no good getting at my |
| 6 | ‘ It 's no good getting to Wembley this season and then finding ourselves at Barnsley in September . |
| 7 | It is no good complaining about militants running everything if we have not spotted what is happening because we 're so busy doing it the way ‘ we always do ’ . |
| 8 | It 's no good complaining after the event when your hair is on the floor . |
| 9 | It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica . |
| 10 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 11 | Yet ‘ to ascertain whether or not an institution is a charity , it is , then , no good looking at the Act ’ . |
| 12 | It 's no good looking to schools and expecting them to solve all the problems . ’ |
| 13 | And if you abandon scientific evidence , it 's no good looking to feeling . |
| 14 | because no good looking in the dictionary for a lot of these things . |
| 15 | ‘ It is no good ceasing to be the world 's policeman in order to become the world 's parson instead . ’ |
| 16 | it 's no good saying to someone come on you should know this if they do n't it does n't help does it . |
| 17 | It 's no good saying to the revenue well half of it er my wife has half of this account therefore I 'm not regarding it as mine . |
| 18 | you know plenty of other little girls that would want to look after him , and I said it 's no good relying on Vicky because she , the little sister , she 's nine , she was too young to do things by herself , you know , I said there 's no way you can let , leave it all to Vicky , so that if you do n't want him any more you must tell me and I said there 'll be no hard feelings but that 's it , cos he comes first at the end of the day , so she said oh I , oh I have been naughty have you been ? |
| 19 | We have heard many times why that has not been possible and it 's no good crying over spilt milk , as they say in these parts . |
| 20 | ‘ No good going for a soldier if you ca n't show a little decision of your own . ’ |
| 21 | It 's no good going to work on the details unless you have this ‘ vision ’ . |
| 22 | It is no good going to a dog training club once a week and forgetting about it the rest of the week . |
| 23 | ‘ No — ’ she wanted to tell him it would n't be diplomatic , but it was no good going into the events of the day with Marc hovering within earshot ‘ — things are all right . |
| 24 | " It 's no good talkin' like that , Mr Farnon . |
| 25 | ‘ If you think a Rottweiler is going to attack you , it 's no good staring at it like you do with other dogs . |
| 26 | No good staring at it Joy , get it |
| 27 | No good talking to me about top and bottom length , cos I do n't know what you 're talking about . |
| 28 | She said , ooh she said to me , she said I know Barbara she said it 's no good talking about it you would n't wan na know , she said , you 're alright . |
| 29 | gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills |
| 30 | ‘ It 's no good working with four duff actors when there 's only five of you in it . |