Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 2 | WHAT a ridiculous idea for parents to be fined or punished for the bad behaviour of their children . |
| 3 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 4 | Every team goes through a bad patch . |
| 5 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 6 | This last point is sometimes regarded as a bad fault in basic training , but it is almost inevitable in a long-ranging competition reverse punch . |
| 7 | Traditionally , therefore , building societies have been extremely reluctant to grant women mortgages on their own , since they are generally regarded as a bad risk on the grounds of their present or future income . |
| 8 | Thumb Sucking — If this is done frequently and perniciously it must be taken in hand and treated as a bad habit . |
| 9 | A BALLET lover yesterday lost her £200 damages claim over what she rated as a bad performance by superstar Rudolph Nureyev . |
| 10 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 11 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 12 | I fall asleep more grudgingly , thrashing at the waves , either reluctant to let a good day depart or still bitching about a bad one . |
| 13 | It is always a big event and probably just what we want after a bad defeat . ’ |
| 14 | This stopped after the bad winter of 1962–3 in the face of increasing competition from road transport on the new motorway system . |
| 15 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 16 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 17 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player . |
| 20 | After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral . |
| 21 | On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the same could not be said of the bad weather ruling which reared its ugly head too often . |
| 23 | The morning papers gave no hint of anything amiss and , in broad daylight , the events and the disturbing stories of the night seemed like a bad dream . |
| 24 | Yesterday seemed like a bad dream , but when he went downstairs , he saw the covered picture . |
| 25 | The mist seemed like a bad omen and Sara 's heart sank a little . |
| 26 | When we 're done with the bad ones we ca n't wait to get them out of here . |
| 27 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 28 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 29 | Cave was older than the rest of the party , and the only one with knowledge of Iran ; he also suffered from a bad back , and must have landed with a fierce combination of jet-lag , suspicion and pain . |
| 30 | He suffered from a bad stutter , and the delighted hilarity of his classmates as he stumbled through simple texts was agony . |