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Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea .
2	What makes us want to know the worst ?
3	It may be an absolutely true statement , but it does nothing whatsoever to give any guidance as to the ways in which performance may be improved and merely passes a message down the line that those at the top do not want to know the bad news and would like to dissociate themselves from it .
4	Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 .
5	‘ Randolph , you must help us quickly ’ he gasped , ‘ Rudolph , you dad has caught a bad cold and will not be able to pull the sleigh tonight .
6	If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government .
7	Anna has seen the worst that people can do to each other .
8	Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths .
9	The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making .
10	Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past .
11	The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up .
12	Cholesterol has had a bad press .
13	She has had a bad time .
14	‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham .
15	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 .
16	Not everybody has had a bad war .
17	School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day .
18	The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile .
19	No but I mean he has had a bad start
20	Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline .
21	Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat .
22	Networking , too , has got a bad name these days , as the scandalous links between Tokyo 's politicians , bureaucrats and businessmen are exposed .
23	Unfortunately Banbury has got a bad reputation among boat users in the past and the council is doing little to dispel it .
24	Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat .
25	He is also chairman of Lloyd 's , the insurance market which is expected to announce the worst loss in its 300-year history later this month .
26	But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good .
27	‘ You want to believe the worst of me , ’ she accused harshly , no longer caring what she said to him , or how much she was stoking his anger .
28	Many western diplomats in Cairo believe that Mr Mubarak , though weakened , has weathered the worst and is capable of handling what could become a drawn-out war with Islamic extremists .
29	Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories .
30	RIGHT Intelligent and loyal , the German Shepherd dog is another breed which , like the Rottweiler , has gained a bad reputation in the popular press .