Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DARLINGTON fuel-effect fire manufacturer Kohlangaz received bad news yesterday from the figures turned in by its parent company Glynwed . |
| 2 | He knew from prior disasters that the rock presaged bad rapids , but he had no other clue as to what lay ahead . |
| 3 | The winter and early spring brought bad by-election results from the Conservatives , but the earlier date was nevertheless decided upon . |
| 4 | The division of the Bohun inheritance produced bad blood between Thomas and Henry Bolingbroke , however , and the disagreement between the two rumbled on throughout Richard II 's reign . |
| 5 | Her mother gave in to this demand because otherwise Kim had bad tantrums during which she had once broken a glass dividing door and on another occasion a dining chair . |
| 6 | SUMMONED to a meeting by one of its biggest customers , a Courtaulds UK business feared bad news . |
| 7 | Thus in Cointat v. Myham ( 1913 C.A. ) where the plaintiff bought bad meat in the Central London Meat Market , it was held that any warranty as to the fitness or quality of the meat was excluded , because there was an established custom of the market to that effect . |
| 8 | Today 's rebels have good intentions and weedy records , The Pistols had bad intentions and brilliant records . |
| 9 | Three years ago , when I started to make some real money as opposed to all that other stuff I 'd been making , my father hit bad trouble on the tables and the track and he … |
| 10 | When Free split , Rodgers formed Bad Company . |
| 11 | Once , when a messenger brought bad news to Cuchulain , the hero let him go in peace . |
| 12 | Lurking behind all this in Mary 's case is , of course , the notion of the gentler sex , with all that entails ; if nice men made bad kings , because successful kingship meant toughness and ruthlessness , how could the more emotional , gentler female hope to make a good queen ? |
| 13 | Police said bad weather meant the popular area was deserted and the car may have been parked there overnight . |
| 14 | A further reservoir at Crick had to be abandoned because of a diversion in the authorised line of the Crick Tunnel , forced upon the Company when the builders struck bad strata in 1912 . |
| 15 | Just the way I knew my mum had bad news when she came in on me in dad 's study all those weeks ago . |
| 16 | The survey examined bad debt experience , credit periods and credit management compared with three years earlier . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the gents had bad luck . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought all nurses had bad skin and beefy thighs . ’ |
| 19 | The mouth of the face had bad breath . |
| 20 | Chuters had lost part of their workforce to the war — the man in the apron had bad feet — but there was not so much work around for those who remained . |