Example sentences of "had the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them . |
| 2 | Atkinson said : ‘ He has not had the best of seasons so far and probably felt he was being frozen out , but He came back and had his best game for us against Arsenal . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Colin has not had the best of luck with injuries but technically he is an excellent player . |
| 4 | CHELMSFORD have not had the best of luck in the draw for the National League relegation play-offs , which take place at the Oulton & West Warwickshire Club on April 2,3 and 4 . |
| 5 | It may be that we could not have had the best of Connors without the worst of him . ’ |
| 6 | He knew , as all the boys had always known , that she had not had the best of lives with his father , but she had never before spoken to him like this . |
| 7 | After finishing cocktails and going into that gorgeous , lofty , airy dining-room , and especially getting a window table as we were lucky enough to , you have had the best of what they have to offer at the Ritz , considerable as this is . |
| 8 | Would n't surprise me if we 've had the best of the day . |
| 9 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 10 | The Carpathian mountains receive powdery Russian snow from the north and have had the best European snow record for the past three years . |
| 11 | Bill has not had the best of seasons this year but , unlike most northern trainers , he has some very rich owners , including Sheikh Mohammed , Robert Sangster and American millionaire Joe Albritton . |
| 12 | I would n't call those highly inventive moves mere dancing ; they bordered on an act that would have had the best strip-tease artists in the country seething with jealousy . |
| 13 | The only journalism which I have done regularly is with the NI which is the group with which I have had the best understanding during my stay in Europe . |
| 14 | But Crosby almost released Stone then into a good position and you have to say Forest have certainly had the best of this second half . |
| 15 | With England staring at their greatest humiliation for nearly 50 years , he sent on a defender and explained : ‘ He 's not had the best of times lately but I believe this is the time to support certain people . |
| 16 | However , it is hard to avoid the impression of a team who have not had the best of luck on and off the field , and who have had great difficulty in coping with Indian spinners , hitches , food and umpires . |
| 17 | Powerful New Zealand Test forward George Mann has hardly had the best of luck with injury , but he is now back in action and ready to challenge for a regular first team place again . |
| 18 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 19 | Certainly the scousers have had the better results , Saturdays was no big deal … 2–0 at home to 10 men Sheff Wed who were totally impotent up front . |
| 20 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 21 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 22 | I have had the good fortune to be in Bruges when the city has had a festival and in Ghent for the same sort of thing . |
| 23 | At last that shy retiring dragon , Little Puff ( remember his first game ? ) has had the good sense to change his name . |
| 24 | The present volume , in honour of Margaret Donaldson , has been written by contributors who have had the good fortune to have worked with her and been influenced by her during their academic careers . |
| 25 | I 've never really had the good fortune to watch a fly 's last moments on Earth before , and my eyes are just glued to this small splodge of legs and wings which are interrupting the clean , shiny surface of the screen . |
| 26 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 27 | They 've had the good sense to include the little-aired ‘ Think About The Future ’ mix of the Mondays ' ‘ WFL ’ , but should be questioned about the inclusion of the terminally tacky Soup Dragons ' ‘ I 'm Free ’ , the success of which marked the point at which cynical goons jumped the wagon and things went sour . |
| 28 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 29 | At least the Rabiers had had the good sense to leave the inside of the château as it had been , at any rate on this floor . |
| 30 | Moynihan , once a junior minister , who had lost his seat at the election , had had the good fortune to buy her a drink the evening before and had suggested ‘ an exquisite light lunch ’ at Macau , the town 's only Portuguese restaurant . |