Example sentences of "a badly [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately other workers were near enough to restrain Uncle Fred before he had time to carry out his threat , with the result that a badly shaken farmer went off into the farmhouse , saying that he would fetch the police in the morning — no telephones in those days . |
| 2 | The bird was returned by a badly shaken youth , who gave no more trouble and , for a few hours , I was Dad 's blue-eyed boy . |
| 3 | Dulles ' message was exactly what a badly shaken nation wanted to hear — God was , after all , on their side . |
| 4 | I become obsessed with a colour gone wrong , a badly hung frame . |
| 5 | Matchsticks almost fell out , stepping back awkwardly like a badly constructed puppet . |
| 6 | A badly constructed letter , crude in style , vague in wording and careless in grammar , will create an unfavourable impression , whereas a well framed letter , clear and concise in wording , indicates efficiency . |
| 7 | At 3500 miles into the Metro 's life , the Rover dealer had to sort out a badly slipping clutch and , a few miles later , replace the brake pads in a effort to cure the soggy feel of the originals . |
| 8 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 9 | Noticing a badly dressed woman while driving in Knightsbridge , she ca n't restrain herself from rolling down the window and crying out ‘ Why ? ’ in sheer exasperation . |
| 10 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 11 | She described the polling station as ‘ a badly lit cow shed ’ . |
| 12 | A single light burned unshaded above the communion table , turning the scene into a badly lit play . |
| 13 | Using the Windows software supplied with the printer it is possible to setup , configure and maintain your printer from the comfort of your PC screen — no more fiddling about with mysteriously labelled buttons and switches , or peering hopelessly at a badly lit LCD panel . |
| 14 | For me a badly painted reflection fades away , while in a good painting it lies on the surface and itself creates a consistently advancing plane . |
| 15 | The referee stopped the contest when Molina was hitting a badly battered Lopez at will , prompting supporters to pelt the ring with beer cups . |
| 16 | Like a badly dented silver coin . ’ |
| 17 | This concept has been refined over the years into ‘ How well do our Raphael holdings reflect his styles from the varying stages of his career ? ’ , leading in a recent , and extreme case , to the Italian government spending $1.5 million at Christie 's in 1991 on a St Catharine , a badly damaged sliver of a juvenile Raphael that had most of its surface paint washed away in the 1966 Florence flood . |
| 18 | The seventeen hundred mile journey across Europe will raise money to repair a badly damaged hospital . |
| 19 | A badly damaged object may have been repaired , or the whole object may be a confection of previously unassociated fragments . |
| 20 | Eleven year old Lisa Morley suffered a badly damaged eye in incident near Grange School in Banbury in May , after which police interviews a boy , who was also aged eleven . |
| 21 | A fragment of a badly damaged altar , found inside the south entrance of the west granary refers to a nameless officer in charge of the granaries . |
| 22 | This may be caused by a badly adjusted carb or a blocked jet within the carb or by an air leak from the manifold gasket under the carb . |
| 23 | frost-bite , I thought , then the gun butt came down more accurately and everything split into two like a badly adjusted range-finder , and I slid into the black snow . |
| 24 | You may be happiest asking a professional to cut out your mount unless you are confident that you will do it properly , as it is a skill that takes a long time to perfect , and a badly cut mount is as off-putting as a badly made frame . |
| 25 | His face was just pasted over a badly formed skull . |
| 26 | In order to plan the route of the path , you should first make a plan of the whole garden , as a badly positioned path can spoil the appearance of the garden , however carefully the ground on either side is laid out . |
| 27 | You may be happiest asking a professional to cut out your mount unless you are confident that you will do it properly , as it is a skill that takes a long time to perfect , and a badly cut mount is as off-putting as a badly made frame . |
| 28 | BRITISH and Commonwealth lightweight champion Billy Schwer took only three rounds to stop Mexico 's Mauricio Aceves with a badly cut eye at Wembley 's Grand Hall last night . |
| 29 | This is a critical feature on such an instrument , as a badly cut nut here would wreak havoc on playability . |
| 30 | He was at least four rounds ahead when Swiss referee Franz Marti stopped the fight as Fabrice Benichou , the French challenger , had a badly cut mouth . |