Example sentences of "[vb past] been a bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 2 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
| 3 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 4 | Like 1929 , 1949 had been a bad year for believing that God was on America 's side . |
| 5 | For the industry as a whole , however , 1990 had been a bad year , with the Gulf war scuppering much of the expected sales growth , and planned new capacity raising the spectre of price wars and poor returns for manufacturers . |
| 6 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 7 | It had been a bad , sad day : receiving permission from Oxford 's coroner to take charge of the body of his President 's son , collecting the coffin from the local undertakers , who had done their best with little chance of success , and dispatching the tragic cargo back to Washington on Air Force One . |
| 8 | It had been a bad year for Cliff , and it was as easy to blame the Council as anyone . |
| 9 | Sendei realized immediately that from every possible viewpoint , the destruction of the discod had been a bad move . |