Example sentences of "he [verb] the bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He says the worst is when you say good evening , sir , and they walk past you as if they do n't exist . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 5 | Perhaps he hopes by this means to get the best of both worlds ; actually , of course , he gets the worst . |
| 6 | You can tell him I was pointing it out to you , should he have the bad manners to bring up the incident . ’ |
| 7 | He thought the worst of Mitch and clearly thought that left to herself she would ring London at once . |
| 8 | Uncomfortable , not liking the thought of leaving the hospital until he knew the worst … or best … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He knew the bad bits existed , but he had edited them out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But , speaking about his shattering experience for the first time , the England winger admits he feared the worst . |
| 14 | I do n't know where he puts the bad ones . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When Bobby Charlton was in the team that won the World Cup , they shared £28,000 — and he had the worst haircut in the world . |
| 17 | He had the worst of all Test baptisms , in 1975 ; went further into his shell when heavily criticised for touring South Africa in 1982 ( a £25,000 libel settlement from the sun a compensation ) ; and found country captaincy too much first time round . |
| 18 | How he had the worst office space in the building , and the worst housing of all the embassy staff . |
| 19 | He was a pleasant , rather ordinary lad with two good A-levels and an unaccountable wish to become a forensic biologist when he had the bad luck to begin to work under you . |
| 20 | He does the worst thing he could have done . |
| 21 | He said the worst figures were in ophthalmology where patients had to wait between 48 and 71 weeks just to see a consultant for a diagnosis . |