Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ You want to believe the worst of me , ’ she accused harshly , no longer caring what she said to him , or how much she was stoking his anger . |
2 | But also I want to stop a bad thing . ’ |
3 | Both activities can be very enjoyable But neither activity will get you very far in your quest for fitness , and to be honest they give walking a bad name . |
4 | We seem to have the worst of both worlds . |
5 | Some like to avoid the worst of city centre traffic , while those who work on tidal rivers have to time their sampling to coincide with low water , since many discharges are only accessible then . |
6 | I like to rehearse the bad things so that I 'll know how to behave when they really happen . ’ |
7 | The estimates of these contingencies tend to consider the worst outcome from the point of view of the local authorities . |
8 | The sciences continue to have a bad season in Washington . |
9 | They still try to despatch the bad balls and the safety of quick singles often depends on the inability of the converging fieldsmen to make a direct hit on the stumps . |
10 | Since the Opposition , clearly , try to make the worst of the current figures , would it not give a truer picture if we looked at the figures of only five years back ? |
11 | As teenagers tend to get a bad name for being moody , rude and irresponsible — to name but a few choice descriptions often used — I 'd like to tell your readers about my teenage son . |
12 | Yet I do fear the worst . |
13 | Er , I agree with them that the elderly do have a bad deal , but if e , if somebody 's got to take money off well surely sho , the government should be taking a cut ten to twenty percent off of their damned wages ! |
14 | If you do , you risk achieving the worst of both worlds by finding that the appeals procedure becomes protracted , that you are not ultimately allowed to resume your job and that you have missed the chance to complain to an industrial tribunal about your treatment . |
15 | If you do get a bad start it is worth tacking through the fleet on port tack in search of clear wind . |
16 | Keep some in the house in case you do get a bad spell . |
17 | yeah but you 've done the worst of it have n't you ? |
18 | Manager Paul Malone surveyed another packed treatment room after yesterday 's game with Linfield and said : ‘ We 've suffered a bad run of injuries over the last month . |
19 | You 're Wall Street yuppies and you 've got a bad image … |
20 | When they 've got a bad day , I find they want love . ’ |
21 | At the moment I could n't cos I 've got a bad knee but I have run after people and caught people , yes . |
22 | But they 're going to be cut out from the two litre bottle range er if they 've got a bad back or these sort of situations . |
23 | ‘ I 've got a bad back , you see . ’ |
24 | I 've got a bad migraine , I tripped and fell and cut my arm . |
25 | The kind of thing you ask yourself when you 've got a bad hangover . |
26 | Timber trade world-wide is doing an enormous amount of work already to make sure that sustainable timber is supplied , and the horror stories are slowly going away , and a lot of people now do not buy timber in this country , from those countries who 've got a bad track record , but are buying from countries like Denmark and Sweden , where it 's a national law on their forestry policy . |
27 | Ooh she said er I 've got a bad cough . |
28 | I 've got a bad back but it do n't , it does n't class me as disabled |
29 | I 've got a bad habit of shouting like that today . |
30 | I 've got a bad back as well . |