Example sentences of "[v-ing] a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Australia , said Mr Bob Graham of Westpac , ‘ is gaining a bad reputation overseas as a result of the failures . ’ |
| 3 | Squashing a bad girl is like trying to squash a bluebottle . |
| 4 | One of them upstairs is avin' a bad time , and ‘ er only fourteen , too . ’ |
| 5 | Some serious incidents occurred during this period on the Broadwater Farm Estate , such as an attack on police by youths which resulted in one officer sustaining a bad head wound , and there was also a series of attacks on an Asian-owned supermarket . |
| 6 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 7 | Lorna Payne acted as Director while Barbara Henry was nursing a bad injury . |
| 8 | Bringing a bad name on two families . |
| 9 | Finsbury Park or the Euston Road , but more serious damage could be done if a fatty was seen wearing a bad pair of trainers by the opposing teams ' fashion spotters . |
| 10 | However , as timeshare was getting a bad name , the holiday cottages grew into sixty corporate lodges aimed at attracting Japanese purchasers . |
| 11 | Erm Mao was worried that as , i in the course of the , the latter stages of directive and the there had been abuses of the system by Party members and that had led to the Party getting a bad name with the peasants and the way to rectify that was to publish the Communist Party membership so everybody in the village would know who was a Communist Party member and they would be able to see , Mao believed , that on the whole Party members had behaved properly , they had n't exploited the situation for their own advantage and where they have they would be , there would be a with them to correct . |
| 12 | And the the firm was very annoyed at hearing this name getting banded about because it was getting a bad name . |
| 13 | Pan Am was getting a bad press — rightly so for its slovenly security at Frankfurt , but wrongly so for its attempts to establish the truth of how the bomb got aboard . |
| 14 | I was getting a bad feeling deep down about what I was saying . |
| 15 | She kept getting a bad throat . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope there is far less chance of students getting a bad lecture , ’ says Mackie . |
| 17 | ‘ She was a lovely wee girl and you would never have heard her saying a bad word about anybody . ’ |
| 18 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 19 | A classic example of good housekeeping which has made Cambridge a authority in the region and beyond and one that even members of the conservative government have occasionally , through gritted teeth they 're not doing a bad job , damn them and that means that the are going to think to have some of those , if you like , very good housekeeping back to the citizens who have been paying the bills over the years . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the Cumberbatch survey showed that while 24% of over 1,000 respondents thought televising a bad idea in early November 1989 , those thinking this had fallen to 15% by March 1990 , and a rising number of people agreed that it was a good idea because ‘ the public have a right to know what goes on ’ — 87% in the first survey and 95% in the later one . |
| 21 | Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign ! |
| 22 | ‘ Were n't you having a bad dream ? ’ |
| 23 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 24 | You were having a bad dream . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you having a bad dream ? ’ |
| 26 | But yesterday Geoff Nichol , health authority chief executive , said the ‘ scare stories ’ were having a bad affect on leukaemia patients . |
| 27 | But what should parents do if they believe their children 's friends are having a bad influence on them ? |
| 28 | She said that being a crime reporter was having a bad influence on him , but agreed , for the sake of her own curiosity as much as his , to try Wickham . |
| 29 | I was particularly impressed with Mountain Ash when they beat us — they were having a bad run but they remained motivated , very organised and very competitive . |
| 30 | I mean as usual with financial journalism , er i it 's somewhere in between , I mean endowments are having a bad run at the moment and that 's because they 've paid out such excellent bonuses in the past so if you 've had a maturity in the last four or five years , you 'll have seen how good they are . |