Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] bad [noun pl] " 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 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 4 | She has got bad spots . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I do n't want to hear bad reports about you . " |
| 10 | I seem to 've had bad vibes about you lately . |
| 11 | A native singing ceremony had been performed to clear bad spirits away before the Australians took up the positions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Did people emigrate to escape bad conditions at home or to seek better ones abroad ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | … 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 . |
| 16 | But plastics as a whole had started to hit bad times . |
| 17 | Certainly , the children I see who have been rigidly controlled and not allowed to express bad feelings are often ill-tempered and uncooperative . |
| 18 | ‘ If I do get bad feelings I know they wo n't last long and that I will cope ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've heard worse reasons . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've done bad things . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Now , so you 've got bad vibes coming in . |
| 24 | Oh shut up I 've got bad veins |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I says , the point is I 've got bad eyes as it is , |
| 27 | I suppose , in theory , I 've had worse times , but not many , and not much worse . |
| 28 | I 've had bad dreams since I was very small and she 's used to it . |
| 29 | We 're sitting in this room and we 're hearing a lot of people who 've had bad experiences with Prozac and other drugs . |
| 30 | 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 . |