Example sentences of "i [verb] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone who can beat me has a good chance of knocking out Holyfield , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I became a good golfer , a one-handicapper , at the municipal course in Southport . |
| 4 | Designing clothes for Carnega was all very well and I made a good living at it I wo n't deny but I wanted to be free to do my own thing — and to have my own name on the labels . |
| 5 | Lambert spent two days on trial with French giants Monaco this week and said : ‘ I think I made a good impression but I 'm quite happy to stay with Reading . ’ |
| 6 | The following year he beat both Sergio Casal and Emilio Sanchez in a 4–1 victory over Spain at Telford and said : ‘ I made a good start in the Cup so the first few matches will always stick in my mind . ’ |
| 7 | It was a fair price to pay , Richard I made a good and trusted friend that day . |
| 8 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 9 | So I er when I said it to him , on top I made a good job I says . |
| 10 | I mean a good film . |
| 11 | The first fella was ver no there 's , there 's some women on the course w er we will see who are actually presenting the course , I mean a good fifty percent of the course is |
| 12 | I lack a good many things , but money ai n't one of 'em . |
| 13 | For example , I had the privilege of visiting Australia last week , when I met a good friend of the hon. Member for Newham , North-East . |
| 14 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I make a good target . |
| 16 | I got a good look at it though while Murchison had it in his hands and then when it was lying there in the water just looking up at us all . |
| 17 | Lord Mount Charles tells me : ‘ For a first-timer I got a good result . |
| 18 | The Emperor Napoleon got a good deal because France would have had to give it up sooner or later anyway , and I got a good deal because Louisiana gave me a lovely companion for life with all the legendary charms of your people . " |
| 19 | And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it . |
| 20 | That disgusting hood you were wearing slipped , and I got a good look at the back of your head . |
| 21 | I got a good look at her , and the can . |
| 22 | This meant Sorley had to lean further out of the van to grab it and as the door opened wider I got a good look inside . |
| 23 | My father had gone bankrupt , and my mother was nearly penniless , but as a relative of Robert Barclay , I got a good bursary . |
| 24 | I said I got a good joke for you here , started to laugh and he said I ai n't said it yet ! |
| 25 | But I got a good one ! |
| 26 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 27 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 28 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 29 | But er we eventually beat it though and as I say a good colliery you could er you could beat 'em to it . |
| 30 | He had an old brew house there and on the side of the sink there I built a good staunch bench about like that square , put a vice on it you know . |