Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most people it seems that it is necessary to stay long enough to enjoy the bad weather as well as the good , to gain a true appreciation of the countryside . |
| 2 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 3 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 4 | Such men owed their positions to the constant manipulation of the party machinery — and so confirmed the worst of Ostrogorski 's fears ; they sat on every local committee , raised money for the local party , decided the selection of candidates and kept their fingers firmly on the local pulse . |
| 5 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 6 | The superintendent grimaced as though her nostrils had suddenly detected a bad smell . |
| 7 | So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training . |
| 8 | As customers we 've all experienced the worst . |
| 9 | She was watching a poor demented man , obviously having a bad day , hacking his way up the fairway towards her . |
| 10 | Besides , he had no sympathy with the Black and Tans ' methods — they were only making a bad situation worse . |
| 11 | If you were unfortunate enough to get a bad cook it took a while before the powers that be realised it , so you had to put up with inedible food for weeks . |
| 12 | Added to which , a serious takeover bid by the Navy at a time when the Services needed to stand together to mitigate the worst excesses of the Sandys Reformation , would have been unforgivable . |
| 13 | Perhaps Christian 's ownership of the farm depended in some way upon the manor , or the Fettiplace family , and Christian had called them together to break the bad news to them . |
| 14 | We only see the worst , and some of those are fairly horrible , I can tell you . |
| 15 | That , remembering , in an area that already has the worst unemployment record in mainland U K. President , the prospect for Tyneside should Swans close , is too bleak to contemplate . |
| 16 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 17 | In the '60s that was just considered the worst . |
| 18 | I 've just had a bad time . |
| 19 | Like those of Caracas , the stations of Mexico have generally had a bad press . |
| 20 | Women are most heavily concentrated in the sales and service sectors , accounting for some 60% to 70% of the work-force , generally speaking the worst paid areas of work . |
| 21 | I 'm only just getting the bad taste out of my mouth — I was ashamed of myself , and of us all . ’ |
| 22 | anything bad you can get a good run then you , you just get a bad er run of carpets of the weaving |
| 23 | ‘ If you have already experienced a bad marriage , you may feel that to marry again is to end up in the same sorry state . |
| 24 | ‘ The effect has been to reinforce the concentration of unemployment in traditional inner city areas ’ , the Centre for Local Economic Strategies ( CLES ) reported in Local Work ( 1988 ) , ‘ and in the regions which were already suffering the worst unemployment before 1979 . ’ |
| 25 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 26 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 27 | A few days later , Charles thought fleetingly of the Superintendent 's little shock and the blackbird singing away as if he was just making a bad joke . |
| 28 | CORPORATE bankruptcies in Japan rose only 2.7 per cent in January and their resulting debt fell more than 40 per cent from a year ago , but analysts said that it was too soon to say the worst was over . |
| 29 | Evander just had a bad night . |
| 30 | And you 'll be interested to know that , as of today , you have just achieved the worst accident record in the division . ’ |