Sentence examples for had going for it from inspiring English sources

The best thing it had going for it was its proximity to America's oldest amusement park, Santa's Workshop.

The one on "Pretty in Pink" seems to deny whatever little the film had going for it before - that is, its comically grotesque portrayal of wealth's spoiled playthings who treat the economically disadvantaged Andie so badly.

Mr. Gilbert led the Philharmonic in the premiere of Mr. Neikrug's 30-minute Concerto for Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening, and whatever else it had going for it, ferocity was not among its more notable qualities.

All the union had going for it was the verbal skill of its lawyer, Clarence Darrow.

So far as people in the Oaks were concerned, all Huntsville had going for it was the state prison and its death chamber.

One thing Lenovo already had going for it in the consumer brand space was its I.B.M. ThinkPad brand.

What it had going for it were a vividly defined rhythmic structure, its expansive color spectrum (there were moments when Jean Kopperud's bass clarinet multiphonics sounded like the whine of controlled electric guitar feedback) and, not least, an enlivening and sometimes cartoonish sense of humor.

These people use TPB: do you really think you can take this community (if you can even call it a community), take away the one thing it had going for it ("Free stuff!"), and completely turn it on its head?

In addition to its adorable ingenue, what Dames at Sea had going for it was a solid grasp on all the twists, turns and clichés of the Busby Berkeley-Ruby Keeler genre of movie musicals from the 1930s.

Dortmund had gone for it, after all.

Frustrated, Thomas's father had gone for it.