Example sentences of "you [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a small employment agency there may only be one interviewer and you will put yourself at a disadvantage if you make a bad start . |
| 2 | Anxious to hit for distance , you make a bad weight transfer ( main photo ) . |
| 3 | You got a bad earth . |
| 4 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 5 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 6 | Do you want the bad news or the very bad news ? |
| 7 | But the first time the breadhead says it , you expect the worst : he 'll ask you to thieve , to sell your body , to start a life of crime . |
| 8 | And the more you done the worse it was I always found that . |
| 9 | If you meet a bad guy , you lock him up . |
| 10 | ‘ You know the bad consequence of my laying myself under unnecessary obligation , and you will therefore take care that I only do it for real Friends that I can depend upon , ’ the member of parliament warned . |
| 11 | Then you know the worst to expect . |
| 12 | ‘ You know the worst thing about being here ? ’ |
| 13 | Maybe if you get a bad deal in this world , it is because of something you did , or were , in a previous life . |
| 14 | As he explores the poetry of Byron at Salisbury he works hard at his arithmetic and English composition until he is ‘ chosen as fit to enter the Civil Service , to hold for the rest of my active life time the pen that is mightier ( when you get a good one ) than the sword ( when you get a bad one ) . ’ |
| 15 | once you get a bad habit and it slows your writing down as well |
| 16 | ‘ Is that where you heard the bad words you used just now ? ’ |
| 17 | But what would you call a bad childhood there though ? |
| 18 | With a lover , a wife , when you find the worst — be it infidelity or lack of love , madness or the suicidal spark — you are almost relieved . |
| 19 | Just remember that whatever you decide the worst case scenario is very unlikely to happen . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And did you hear the bad language he used just now ? |
| 21 | ‘ Were n't you having a bad dream ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Are you having a bad dream ? ’ |
| 23 | Did you have a bad lunch chair ? |
| 24 | Plus the fact that it 's a challenge — if you shoot a bad composition in colour , more often than not you can get away with it . |
| 25 | After all , it 's in their interests to keep you going — if you 're pushed into total insolvency you become a worse debt to them . |
| 26 | ‘ You even loved me when you thought the worst of me , did n't you ? ’ |
| 27 | When you first went to Vienna to conduct at the State Opera in , I think , 1937 , you saw the worst side of opera-house routine ? |
| 28 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 29 | You took a bad fall — twenty feet , maybe — almost vertical . |
| 30 | BELVILLE : I did intend what you call the worst , but if I am master of myself and my own resolution , I find I love you beyond all your sex , and on my honour I will not attempt to force you to anything again . |