Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tribute I suppose to the English language that there are so many forms of circumlocution that it is remarkably easy to persuade yourself that you have made a bold statement , or conveyed the bad news , whilst in reality there is no conceivable possibility that the recipient has actually understood what you are talking about . |
| 2 | As a top physiotherapist , she is more than used to stretching and flexing the muscles of people who have tortured their frail frame , or endured a bad tackle on the football field . |
| 3 | Discuss your problem with Larry the Lamb or Sin the Bad . |
| 4 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 5 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 6 | Nervous controls are not the same as behavioural responses of the kind we have seen in the case of reptiles , which situate themselves at angles to gain the maximum benefit from , or to avoid the worst excesses of , solar radiation . |
| 7 | If you had a cold , aconite would stop it from developing , or keep a bad cold from becoming something worse . |
| 8 | Very often , if they lost their income or savings , or had a bad marriage , or developed a serious organic disease , they did recover from their neuroses . |
| 9 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 10 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 11 | He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement . |
| 12 | If you do you will become muddled and make a bad impression . |
| 13 | I will leave them behind me and go only with the clothes on my back , and then I have two miles and a half and a byway to the town , and bring pretty well dressed I may come to some harm almost as bad as what I ran away from , and then , perhaps , it will be reported I have stolen something , and to carry a bad name to my dear parents … |
| 14 | If you are unlucky and suffer a bad frost-burn , be prepared to prune the stems further back to the next dormant eye , whatever its direction , and whatever the date . |
| 15 | If you find that you worry about the imagined outcome of the bout and fear the worst or if you have a racing pulse , then I would say you are over-aroused and in danger of throwing everything away . |
| 16 | We all to some extent remember the good times and forget the bad , but perhaps that is another important part of the make-up of the ultra runner . |
| 17 | Among the women themselves there 's the feeling that you hope for the best and expect the worst , a deep pessimism that patriarchy rules and scarpers without paying the bills . |
| 18 | The answer is to drop back to conscious competence every now and again to check things out and eradicate the bad habits . |
| 19 | She had n't really given him time to explain , just looked at that horrible creature prancing about in the hall all sexed up , and assumed the worst . |
| 20 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 21 | Answer guide : Reduce the asset debtors and charge the bad debt as an expense . |
| 22 | Mrs. Bennet is a woman of poor understanding and possesses a bad temper , compared to Mr. Bennet . |
| 23 | Bill Morris , General Secretary of the Transport Workers Union was welcomed by management at Rover 's body plant , and says the bad old days are gone . |
| 24 | We will enable tenants to apply for Housing Action Trusts to take over and improve the worst estates . |
| 25 | Its disclosures also served to heighten the WEA 's apprehension about the problems inherent in the RAC policy and confirmed the worst fears of those WEA members who were involved in the difficult protracted negotiations currently in hand in early 1939 . |
| 26 | ‘ But it looks as if I 've been lucky and escaped the worst of it . |
| 27 | Flying direct from Cairo to Paris and surviving the worst earthquakes that Egypt has ever suffered might sound excellent training for Paris Fashion Week , but proved to be more rigorous than the event strictly called for . |
| 28 | Given the pressures of external demands , the size of the diocese , and the problems of travelling to over 300 parishes , most bishops and their officers had to content themselves with regular exhortations and punishing the worst , or least skilful , clerical offenders . |
| 29 | He pronounced took like a curse , and mimed the bad men looking by jutting his head forward and glaring at her like a demented goldfish . |
| 30 | I shifted into second , and the Discovery stormed up the slope with a roar of V8 power , only to slither to a halt halfway up , its front wheels sliding sideways on a sheet of ice and threatening the worst off-road fate of all — to be stuck across a slope . |