Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 2 | To make up for the unkindness , he made a bad and nervous joke . |
| 3 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 4 | He gets terribly bad tempered if he plays a bad shot . |
| 5 | We 'd discussed taking a 1-iron , but he insisted on a 3-wood and , although he got a bad bounce , put it in the sand and took a bogey . |
| 6 | My son was about three week ago but it w it was n't as bad as this , he got a bad cough and |
| 7 | Being appointed Waywarden he levelled the worst ‘ knaps ’ along the High Street , raised a part of Church Hill to a more even gradient and improved the pond below Carrants Court Farm where , as a boy , he drew water near his birth place . |
| 8 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 9 | He caught a bad cold and , thinking that the disease had returned , took his life . |
| 10 | Like Tanya , he has no bad feelings towards his employers and says his redundancy was handled well . |
| 11 | ‘ Brian Williams went down on the ball once and had his head blatantly stamped on and he has a bad cut , ’ he added . |
| 12 | And he refuses to accept that he has a bad boy reputation which goes before him with officials . |
| 13 | He says the worst is when you say good evening , sir , and they walk past you as if they do n't exist . |
| 14 | And if he played a bad shot , he let the spectators know about it . |
| 15 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 16 | Has he had a bad appraisal then or something . |
| 17 | Manager Edward Stein admits he fears the worst after Barnet 's company secretary Stanley Beller warned him that the club would be put into liquidation inside 24 hours unless ‘ things are sorted out . ’ |
| 18 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 19 | Perhaps he hopes by this means to get the best of both worlds ; actually , of course , he gets the worst . |
| 20 | You can tell him I was pointing it out to you , should he have the bad manners to bring up the incident . ’ |
| 21 | He thought the worst of Mitch and clearly thought that left to herself she would ring London at once . |
| 22 | Uncomfortable , not liking the thought of leaving the hospital until he knew the worst … or best … |
| 23 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 24 | He knew the bad bits existed , but he had edited them out . |
| 25 | He was aware that Members had to come and go at irregular intervals at the behest of their lords and masters when the House was in session , but he feared the worst . |
| 26 | The scheme the mother and this brother were plotting entailed Sien somehow , and though he could n't make head nor tail of it he feared the worst . |
| 27 | But , speaking about his shattering experience for the first time , the England winger admits he feared the worst . |
| 28 | ‘ When he puts a bad cross in , he 'll go down the line again a few minutes later and try once more . |
| 29 | I do n't know where he puts the bad ones . |
| 30 | He gave the bad leg a gentle kick , to be rewarded with an agonized moan and the information that it was certainly broken , probably in two or three places . |