Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | … Just when it is desirable that ignorant men , new to politics , should have good issues , and only good issues , put before them , these statesmen will have suggested bad issues . |
| 32 | Generally , though , all animals try to avoid bad weather , and , in the past , their habits were used as a natural weather gauge . |
| 33 | But plastics as a whole had started to hit bad times . |
| 34 | Hard cases do make bad law . |
| 35 | Families who are desperate for housing are forced to accept bad housing offers simply because they have no other choice . |
| 36 | Those men did bring bad news last night . |
| 37 | Certainly , the children I see who have been rigidly controlled and not allowed to express bad feelings are often ill-tempered and uncooperative . |
| 38 | We start getting bad weather and then we 're gon na be in trouble are n't we ? |
| 39 | For instance , there have been occasions when I have tried to run bad ball and you just do not get away with that against good opposition . |
| 40 | Children do hear bad language , not only outside the home but sometimes from parents too . |
| 41 | A preview will tell you what the software can do at the moment — we do n't go too heavily on any minor bugs or inconsistencies at the preview stage , but we do criticise bad design and form an opinion about whether the software will be up to scratch when it gets released . |
| 42 | ‘ If I do get bad feelings I know they wo n't last long and that I will cope ’ |
| 43 | I had received bad news . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've heard worse reasons . ’ |
| 45 | I have been asking myself again why it is that the UK continues to suffer worse swings of ‘ stop-go ’ economic cycles than any of our competitors , with more serious effects in particular on business confidence . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've done bad things . |
| 47 | Asked by Ruth Anderson , for the uncle , if she was absolutely sure he had done bad things to her twice , the girl replied : ‘ I ca n't remember because I was only little . ’ |
| 48 | I 've got bad indigestion . |
| 49 | Now , so you 've got bad vibes coming in . |
| 50 | Oh shut up I 've got bad veins |
| 51 | Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results . |
| 52 | I says , the point is I 've got bad eyes as it is , |
| 53 | three week , I 've got bad breath and it 's all like coming down here and in my ear . |
| 54 | Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list . |
| 55 | I suppose , in theory , I 've had worse times , but not many , and not much worse . |
| 56 | I 've had bad dreams since I was very small and she 's used to it . |
| 57 | We 're sitting in this room and we 're hearing a lot of people who 've had bad experiences with Prozac and other drugs . |
| 58 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 59 | Yeah I feel very sorry for the people who 've had bad reactions from Prozac about |
| 60 | ‘ I 've had bad news , ’ he said , ‘ Edward Morris has been taken into Swansea Prison , he is accused of fraud . ’ |