Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Randolph , you must help us quickly ’ he gasped , ‘ Rudolph , you dad has caught a bad cold and will not be able to pull the sleigh tonight . |
| 2 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 3 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 4 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 5 | The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up . |
| 6 | Cholesterol has had a bad press . |
| 7 | She has had a bad time . |
| 8 | ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham . |
| 9 | And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded . |
| 10 | Not everybody has had a bad war . |
| 11 | School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day . |
| 12 | The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile . |
| 13 | No but I mean he has had a bad start |
| 14 | Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat . |
| 15 | Networking , too , has got a bad name these days , as the scandalous links between Tokyo 's politicians , bureaucrats and businessmen are exposed . |
| 16 | Unfortunately Banbury has got a bad reputation among boat users in the past and the council is doing little to dispel it . |
| 17 | Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat . |
| 18 | But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good . |
| 19 | RIGHT Intelligent and loyal , the German Shepherd dog is another breed which , like the Rottweiler , has gained a bad reputation in the popular press . |
| 20 | Good technology has gained a bad name . |
| 21 | Any human being who has eaten a bad oyster , spent a night in agony , and vowed never to touch oysters again , will understand this . |
| 22 | On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power . |
| 23 | ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade . |
| 24 | The first of these is older than the second , and has acquired a bad name ; indeed , it acquired it fairly early , in some part from the monumental and unappealing system of Herbert Spencer . |
| 25 | And somebody 's reported a bad pot hole near your house Harry . |
| 26 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 27 | She 's got a bad cold or 'flu and she 's running a temperature , ’ said Mother in an ‘ I told you so ’ voice . |
| 28 | DON BAKER 'S got a bad case of the blues . |
| 29 | It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life . |
| 30 | Cos the area 's got a bad name for drugs anyway . |