Example sentences of "[vb -s] had a bad [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cholesterol has had a bad press .
2 The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile .
3 School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day .
4 And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded .
5 ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham .
6 She has had a bad time .
7 Not everybody has had a bad war .
8 No but I mean he has had a bad start
9 Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past .
10 The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up .
11 There 's , there 's one , something about a dog or something , involves describing somebody like a dog or that 's had a bad temper , I forget , there 's all sorts of words .
12 A servant 's had a bad dream , that 's all , and started screaming .
13 When he 's had a bad day he looks really sad .
14 She 's had a bad time and no mistake . ’
15 She 's had a bad time , so the buzz has it .
16 He 's had a bad time lately as Madame Verveine has had to go into the nursing-home again .
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