Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone has bad times , right ?
2 Streets or parks are too theatrical for me to be at ease , so I make bad moves , exaggerate or , more often , under-bid .
3 ‘ Not , ’ Gaily said , worried , ‘ not that I meet bad people .
4 He instantly took in that I brought bad news and steered me at once into the noisy outside coupling space between the dayniter and the central dining car .
5 ‘ Not working is very disheartening — I do n't want to get to the stage where I do bad parts but being forgotten would be awful . ’
6 If we tried to keep it alive we had an open flank : some guy trying to save his own ass by telling them : ‘ Jeez if you drink I did bad things just look at what Magill and Tadham were doing in London . ’
7 I liked Bad Money .
8 I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early .
9 She said I have my good days and my bad days , said I had bad day yesterday not too bad .
10 The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic .
11 I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend .
12 Sometimes I wish bad things would n't happen .
13 I have bad news . ’
14 ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news , ’ said Jackson in a stony voice .
15 I have bad news , Brother .
16 Doctor : ‘ I 'm afraid I have bad news for you Mr Bristow .
17 He stepped forward , said in a deep , smoky voice , ‘ Miss Swift , I 'm afraid I have bad news for you .
18 Erm again when I have bad days with these wrists they just give way , and this is not a mental thing at all , I mean I could be holding a , a glass or a cup in my hand or a , a , a dish of something for that matter , and the er the nerves just relax the muscle and out it goes , it 's n n I do n't know it 's going to happen , but it can happen .
19 As well as being a dirty habit which encourages bad health , bad breath and bad manners , I could never sit and listen to an addict justify his addiction .
20 But a system which institutionalises bad behaviour has something deeply wrong with it .
21 His ‘ halimeter ’ , which measures bad breath , will be unveiled at the Mexico conference .
22 Retail sales here in the US were off 0.4 per cent in March , which spelled bad news for Libya .
23 No you 're not you got bad head again , you 're
24 Now you got bad spirit .
25 Hopper , who plays bad guy Koopa , storms : ‘ The movie was re-written six times before we even started — now it 's re-written every day . ’
26 A central register of information blacklisted certain people , particularly those who passed bad cheques and placed fraudulent overseas orders .
27 Would that passionless person mind if she got bad notices ?
28 Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped .
29 ‘ There are a number of bishops in public life who attack bad language .
30 Yer let people cry of games for no good reason , 'cept that somebody close to 'em says they ca n't , and yer tolerate bad behaviour . ’
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