Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their horses were fresher , and gradually closed on Sharpe who , to spare the mare 's strength , tried to avoid the worst hills , but he eventually found himself trapped in a long valley and was forced to put the mare at a steep grass slope which led to a bare skyline . |
| 2 | Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories . |
| 3 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 4 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
| 5 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 6 | With Moscow still actively seeking to destabilize the western democracies during the thirties , Soviet calls for collective security ( 1934–39 ) against Nazi expansionism were viewed with acute suspicion and the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 seemed to confirm the worst . |
| 7 | Sir William seemed to encompass the worst of every world , somehow . |
| 8 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He felt odd , queer , as if he 'd had a bad dream . |
| 11 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 12 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | when he 'd said he 'd had a bad experience . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | For a moment I wondered if I 'd brought the bad luck down on us by pretending the planetaries were n't working , at the Vadinamian Valve . |
| 17 | ‘ I just seemed to get the worst of it . ’ |
| 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 | We all arrived anticipating the worst but were greeted warmly by the manager of the Hotel du Golf in Arc 1800 , with a Kir Royale in the American Bar . |
| 20 | It was interesting and exciting and I began to forget the bad times in Hong Kong . |
| 21 | He began to consider the worst possible scenario . |
| 22 | The aircraft was so silent , the atmosphere so eerie that as the medical team jumped from the ambulance they all began to fear the worst for the passengers inside — that they might not have survived the shock and impact of the crash landing . |
| 23 | Inevitably , as the affray continued , PC Thomas Hewett began to get the worst of it . |
| 24 | In trying to protect sources of water for drinking , the EC proposal is a step towards environmental purity rather than a sticking-plaster solution which does the minimum needed to avoid the worst nitrate pollution . |
| 25 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 26 | Finally we were called up , the gun fired and on this day Lee Macrae decided to have a bad start ! |
| 27 | In 1976 Britain , or more strictly England and Wales , introduced legislation which sought to control the worst excesses of the press and the courts in relation to rape . |
| 28 | She kept getting a bad throat . |
| 29 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 30 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |