Example sentences of "good to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too good to be true ! |
| 2 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 3 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 4 | They are too good to be forgotten , or some of them are . |
| 5 | The only reason that Henry Cecil , Spritsail 's trainer , could give for that poor Ascot run was that the ground there was loose , but the official going was good to firm at Ascot , the same as yesterday 's . |
| 6 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 7 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 8 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 9 | It is n't too good to be true though — your admission fee just gets you in there — all activities cost extra . |
| 10 | Sounds good to me . |
| 11 | He was very handsome and he was very good to me . |
| 12 | But my husband always thought that my in-laws were good to me , because they never criticised me in his presence , He had told them beforehand ‘ I know this girl , what she is like , so I do n't want to hear anything about her from you . |
| 13 | Your father was always good to me , and his uncle . |
| 14 | Too good to be pigeonholed under ‘ New Country . ’ |
| 15 | The Captain ( Tim Forster ) is very good to me and there 's no pressure on either of us now that I 'm no longer stable jockey . |
| 16 | The day seemed very long yesterday but I must say my ‘ bonne ’ was very good to me . |
| 17 | DAVID INSHAW 'S painting of ‘ The Cricket Game ’ in the lazy valley of the River Bride might make the fat green chalk hills around look too good to be true . |
| 18 | That sounds too good to be true . |
| 19 | And the still , small voice which persisted in whispering ‘ too good to be true ’ gradually , very gradually , became fainter . |
| 20 | She 'd be good to be seen with and she had a sense of humour . |
| 21 | It would be good to be greeted as you walked along by smiling creatures lying along the pavements . |
| 22 | ‘ That woman who 's been good to you , would she have her if you asked ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ They are good to old people here ; we shall probably get in if no one else does . |
| 24 | ‘ You should have known it was too good to be true ! ’ |
| 25 | In 10.29 Moses invited his father-in-law to accompany them on their journeyings with the words , ‘ … come with us , and we will do you good ; for the Lord has promised good to Israel . ’ |
| 26 | They 're not speaking now but he 's very good to her , she has her favourite mushroom omelettes at every meal . |
| 27 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 28 | Norman Cook will never be spoken about in the same breath as Jazzie B , yet ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is one of the hardest records you will ever hear seeping out of a Ford Escort at the traffic lights . |
| 29 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 30 | Nanny was good to him . |