Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 2 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 3 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 4 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 5 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 6 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 7 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 8 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 9 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 10 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 11 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 13 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 14 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 15 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 16 | This could n't have happened at a worse time . |
| 17 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 19 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 20 | You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’ |
| 21 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 22 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ I then realised there were people just like me , and people who had gone through a worse hell than me . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 25 | That morning Margaret had complained of a bad bout of sickness . |