Example sentences of "[verb] have [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 2 | The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up . |
| 3 | Cholesterol has had a bad press . |
| 4 | She has had a bad time . |
| 5 | ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Not everybody has had a bad war . |
| 8 | School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day . |
| 9 | The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile . |
| 10 | No but I mean he has had a bad start |
| 11 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 12 | He felt odd , queer , as if he 'd had a bad dream . |
| 13 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 14 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 15 | You know , I was on the phone to a customer for fifteen to twenty minutes because they 'd had a bad experience and I was actually making an appointment for Roy to go in and that twenty minutes is a long time , and I think really if anything , it 's just brought to me really , , how little time sometimes , it 's not always the case , it does vary , that , depending on the incoming calls , depending if you 've got got through the emerging paperwork for whatever reason , how little quality time perhaps you do actually spend on the phone , making outgoing calls to sell . |
| 16 | when he 'd said he 'd had a bad experience . |
| 17 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 18 | term once used for a person who collected alms for lepers and other beggars ; the term came to have a bad meaning because of the abuse of the system . |
| 19 | These inadequacies of structure in turn were thought to have a bad effect on the efficient delivery of local government services , and on the ability of citizens to understand the role of local democracy . |
| 20 | I think that makes it difficult because if you are talking to somebody you do n't know whether you 're going to have a bad pain during your conversation … |
| 21 | Although Glumdalclitch tried to make things as comfortable as possible for me , such an exhausting life was beginning to have a bad effect on my health . |
| 22 | I 'll make sure May and June top up , because I 'm expecting to have a bad month in July , but because I 'm expecting to have a good month , I might as well go on holiday myself . |
| 23 | Britain wants to encourage movement , not to stifle it , and any talk of sanctions would be bound to have a bad effect . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 27 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 28 | The sciences continue to have a bad season in Washington . |
| 29 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 30 | IT would have been pretty hard , given the Government 's troubles , for Labour to have had a bad Conference . |