Example sentences of "was a good [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'He was a good friend to me , ’ Richard said . |
| 2 | Fernande Olivier , Picasso 's mistress , described him as stingy , but he was a good friend to Modigliani , encouraged him to paint and lent him colours , brushes and canvas . |
| 3 | He was a good friend to me in difficult times . |
| 4 | He was a good friend to me . |
| 5 | In the early days of Everyday Electronics it was often suggested that it was a good idea to double-up on the cheaper components when buying a set of components for a project . |
| 6 | Romany King was a good second to Party Politics last year and has been trained for the race . |
| 7 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 8 | He was a good person to be with , even if he did laugh at her . |
| 9 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 10 | The performance of dance and drama attended during the inspection of Matagalpa Prison was a good testimony to the efforts being made to draw out the creativity and self-expression of the prisoner . |
| 11 | A trip to Australia for the country 's bicentennial celebrations was a good start to the year . |
| 12 | It was a good start to our evening . |
| 13 | It was a good start to a day that had already seen the Liberal Democrats improve by two points in the latest opinion polls . |
| 14 | And it was a good start to this year 's championships . |
| 15 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 16 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 17 | There was a good living to be had for a shrewd man in an institution . |
| 18 | ‘ He was a good son to his mother and generous and loving to his … companions , ’ the word was chosen with obvious care and uttered with thinly-concealed disapproval , ‘ but he was very ambitious . |
| 19 | She smiled , it was a good feeling to be in charge of your own destiny . |
| 20 | The humorous implication was that obviously Scotland was a good place to be from . |
| 21 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 22 | When the trucks paused while negotiating a particularly tricky turn , and Rain recognized where they were and that it was a good place to be , they climbed out and took a short route out of the old town and back to the hotel . |
| 23 | Clarendon Road was a good place to be . |
| 24 | He believed that his body was a good guide to his character and he punished it and indulged it by turns . |
| 25 | ‘ The wholesale pillorying of Pakistan after they had behaved unquestionably badly at Old Trafford was a good deal to self-righteous for my liking . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But , ’ he adds , ‘ strategically , if you stood back and asked yourself if domestic appliances was a good business to be in , the answer was no , it was n't . |
| 27 | Fred was a good husband to her and the difference in their ages did not matter to Carrie . |
| 28 | It was a good time to be happy . ’ |
| 29 | I decided then and there that it was a good thing to be without wax . |