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 .
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