Sentence examples for good a command from inspiring English sources

She says she was "a lost pathetic child" who, at 20, "still had a childlike view of people" and who didn't have as good a command of Italian as she liked to think.

It was hard to think supernatural forces were not involved when you had a head coach trying to explain away the benching of his starting quarterback by saying the player doesn't have as good a command of the two-minute drill as the backup does.

"It's not that I go to the mound and want to do something special, it's just that I want to go nine innings, go deeper, get a good command, get a good game," Sanchez said.

LUCIE, Fla .— When the Mets traded for Ramon Ramirez this winter, they got a right-hander with a lively fastball, a deceptive delivery and a good command of a pair of scissors.

Both were very enthusiastic and had an excellent knowledge of the area as well as a good command of English.

He studied in Wales in the early 1980s and went to the United States as a tourist, retaining fond memories of his time abroad as well as a good command of English.

C1 Has a good command of a very broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocutions; little obvious searching for expressions or avoidance strategies.

Table 1 Vocabulary descriptors in the CEFR Bands Levels Range Control Proficient User C2 Has a good command of a very broad lexical repertoire including idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms; shows awareness of connotative levels of meaning.

All you need is power, wealth, a plausible manner and a good command of English to be considered a first-class fellow.

Persons who spoke English not well who had a support person with a good command of the English language were included whereas persons who scored 'not at all' on the Proficiency in Spoken English Test, irrespective of the presence of support persons who spoke English, were excluded from the trial.

"He had everything you want in a reliever — good fastball command, a big breaking ball, and the ability to make pitches," said Street, who closed for Colorado in 2011.