Sentence examples for did rather good from inspiring English sources

Hill grew up in a "bookish household" in Kentish Town, north London, with a journalist father who made "intricate model boats" and wrote "rather good poetry" and a graphic designer mother who did "rather good pictures" and sang.

Why can't we let the women in other countries fight for their own democratic rights just as we did, rather than telling them what's good for them?

If so, then that is good, since Ali did rather effectively tease some lessons from the past which are peculiarly relevant to our hypocrisy-laden present.

" I'm hoping that people will remember the good things she did rather than the harshness".

Syria's Kurds have done rather a good job of governing themselves more generally (helped by the fact that Mr Assad refrains from bombing Kurdish areas as he does zones held by mainstream Sunni Arab rebels).

Mr Yudhoyono has held out the prospect of a cabinet stocked with other capable honest men.Of the many explanations offered for the incumbent's popularity the simplest may also be the most convincing: he has done rather a good job.

The focus in Europe's relationship with Mr Obama needs to be on goals not gush and on doing rather than just feeling good.

And then he did a rather good one with a red line around a green face, which was small and quite pretty and which I do actually now have.

"Given the size of the system, we did a rather good job.

If I was not a gibbering wreck when I was introduced to Ivor Allchurch, a Swansea football idol so venerable that he was also my father's hero, I suspect I did a rather good impersonation of one.

They cared about getting it done rather than looking good.