Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] so badly " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd behaved so badly towards you right from the beginning that you were justified in calling me an ogre . |
| 2 | He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened . |
| 3 | Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered . |
| 4 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 5 | She had slept so badly in the small hotel . |
| 6 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 7 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 8 | For once , she must tell him the truth , never mind that he had behaved so badly last night . |
| 9 | And she had wanted so badly to stay alive . |
| 10 | She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down . |
| 11 | He had thought that he might slip in for a quick snack that would keep body and soul together before he went back to his room to brood about the situation that he had handled so badly . |
| 12 | ‘ We wanted revenge and I think we all felt the pressure because we wanted to win so badly , ’ said Wood , who looked more like she was enjoying herself . |