Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 2 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ All my life I 've been a good mixer … ’ |
| 5 | Holy Mary , she thought , all these years I 've been a good girl — ca n't you do something ? |
| 6 | I have been a good advocate in my time . |
| 7 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 8 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 9 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 10 | You 've been a good lodger and paid regular , and I 'm sorry about it ; but there it is , Mr Arkwright . |
| 11 | You 've been a good wife , Elaine . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been a good son to me , ’ the old man said . |
| 13 | You can have a biscuit if you 've been a good boy . |
| 14 | You 've been a good boy ! |
| 15 | You going to tell daddy you 've been a good boy today ? |
| 16 | She had been a good woman . |
| 17 | She had been a good wife , too . |
| 18 | Nevertheless she had been a good , kind sister and looked after him very well . |
| 19 | She had been a good companion ; she did not deserve this from him . |
| 20 | I did n't forget Nelly who had been a good little friend to me , and eventually we did meet up again , several years later . |
| 21 | You have been a good friend to me when there was no one else ; and you have given me back my health . |
| 22 | ‘ ' Shortly after he looked me full in the face and said , ‘ You have been a good father to me and I am persuaded we shall meet again in heaven |
| 23 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 24 | She 's been a good friend to me . ’ |
| 25 | And I saw your mother and I was going on saying all your virtues and how she 's been a good girl , how does that , how er , how erm self discipline she was and all this is on the tape |
| 26 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 27 | There has been a good deal written about coal field culture but coal field culture is not now ( although it was very recently ) central to either of my locales . |
| 28 | There has been little sociological work on this topic but there has been a good deal of interesting history , much of it carried out under the aegis of the North East Labour History Society . |
| 29 | There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese . |
| 30 | It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system . |