Example sentences of "[pers pn] a bad [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Was she a bad cook ?
2 This must override any scheme rules which would give you a worse deal .
3 Colquhoun tormented Barnsley with his pace and skill and last night admitted : ‘ It hurts when you hear people calling you a bad buy .
4 Even this thing you say you did — even that does not make you a bad man .
5 Or are you a bad girl ?
6 ‘ Oh , Bully , ’ cried Angela happily , holding the alsatian 's great head between her hands and putting her face close to his , ‘ I 'll never call you a bad dog again .
7 Please do not ply me with biscuits ; I have no desire to set you a bad example by pigging myself . ’
8 Close behind him , the mestizo called , ‘ Hey , Gringo , you a bad leetle dog .
9 Now they would consider me a bad child for ever .
10 It gives me a bad head .
11 gives me a bad head it do and it upsets me stomach .
12 Well I would n't , I would n't drink er coffee now , this time of a night cos that gives me a bad head .
13 And he gave me a bad ticket , bastard .
14 And you call me a bad driver . ’
15 They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men .
16 Indeed , the type of man who organised local seamen 's societies in the 1870s 1880s and 1890s was often such as to give them a bad name .
17 There is no doubt that some worksheets are simply banal , and it may be these that have given them a bad name — especially the quiz type that simply ask " How many ? " or " What ? "
18 They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name .
19 Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper .
20 Sega did allow rentals , but charged a huge licensing fee , making them a bad deal , he said .
21 Even so , it does n't make him a bad man . ’
22 He had one bad game for England but that does n't make him a bad player . ’
23 The immigrant in him also makes him a bad delegater , say former colleagues .
24 He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review .
25 Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in .
26 That allegory is complex , but seems mainly concerned with the way in which Frankenstein , standing for science in general , wishes to remould the world for the better , and instead leaves it a worse place than he finds it .
27 Like many European economies , Austria faces a difficult year ; its close links with the ailing German economy may give it a worse time than most .
28 You could call it a bad year .
29 Do nothing that may give it a bad name .
30 Simon Draper thought it a bad idea , but realised that argument was futile .
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