Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has selected bad squads , putting continuity before form … the Waddle Factor . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank has suffered a slide in profits to £20.9 million from £57.7 million and has seen bad debts soar . |
| 3 | The British banger has suffered bad publicity in recent years from Europe . |
| 4 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 5 | One person has had bad side effects , the rest of our callers think it 's wonderful . |
| 6 | If you have succeeded in establishing good relations with local journalists , they may be more helpful when you want to avoid bad publicity . |
| 7 | She has got bad spots . |
| 8 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 9 | Victor Lewis-Smith has elevated bad taste into an art form . |
| 10 | IT is difficult to tell whether Tuesday 's leadership ballot in the Conservative Party has caused bad blood among the Thatcherites ; the Downing Street bunker is too well insulated for any sounds of strife to be audible outside . |
| 11 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 12 | For example , the mental-health establishment , behaving as though it has sniffed bad news , is publicly agitating for full-fledged inclusion in the benefits programme . |
| 13 | I 've warned you before , Ben , either you stop keeping bad company , or … ’ |
| 14 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 15 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 16 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 17 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 18 | He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results . |
| 19 | I do n't want to hear bad reports about you . " |
| 20 | They did not refer me , and strangely I did not insist ; as patients do not want to hear bad news . |
| 21 | Y'know as a manager you do n't want to hear problems , you do n't want to hear bad news , you do n't want to hear disaster . |
| 22 | I seem to 've had bad vibes about you lately . |
| 23 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 24 | I know smell bad water nose belong me . |
| 25 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 26 | There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered . |
| 27 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 28 | Did people emigrate to escape bad conditions at home or to seek better ones abroad ? |
| 29 | ‘ Apologies , comrades , ’ he said , ‘ but in today 's en-lightened consumer age the traffic problem seems to get worse day by day . ’ |
| 30 | They could not , however , raise money on their estates , since , under a medieval law of entailment , their lands could not be seized to recover bad debts . |