Example sentences of "come [prep] the bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 2 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |
| 3 | ‘ Latin America has come through the worst , ’ says OUP 's David Stewart . |
| 4 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
| 5 | Yet those who have come off the worse from their dealings with Hamnett may have sharper recall , among them London 's high fashion retailers Joseph Ettedgui and Peter Bertelsen . |
| 6 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 7 | SHOULD the worst come to the worst , John and Norma Major will at least be able to make a dignified departure from Downing Street . |
| 8 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 9 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 10 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 11 | ‘ He came off the worst but I do n't know what happened to the fairy on top . |
| 12 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 13 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 14 | If the worst came to the worst he could cook it himself . |
| 15 | But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen . |
| 16 | I had thought that , if the worst came to the worst , I could always follow the hillside and make my way down to the bottom . |
| 17 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 18 | On the one hand Europe favoured détente , but on the other , they also needed US protection and were concerned that , if the worst came to the worst , Carter would not be prepared to go to war to save Europe . |
| 19 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 20 | If the worst came to the worst he would cut his numbers , take the orchestra straight over Karl 's sections and leave him standing . |
| 21 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 22 | ‘ If the worst came to the worst — no , do n't get worked up again , she is quite elderly , after all — you 'd still have Martin . |
| 23 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 24 | This will ensure that we help the Group come through the worse recession in our industry for many years , and that we are in place and able to contribute to the future upturn in the market . |
| 25 | He was the sort of man who would come to the worst possible conclusion . |
| 26 | The best stories always come from the worst experiences . ’ |
| 27 | Worse come to the worse , she brought the Headmaster in with his cane and he was er like the one in the stories , skilled to rule , but anyway his most proficiency was wielding this cane , which was a good three foot long . |
| 28 | The enlargement of the EC had , quite simply , come at the worst possible time so far as global economic conditions were concerned , and did not bring the dynamic improvements that had been hoped for . |
| 29 | White has been at the arboretum for 14 years and observes that the best autumn colour often comes after the worst summers . |
| 30 | If the worst comes to the worst in the war , he 'll leave us all in the mess and put a bullet through his head . |