Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] bad [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When he came to employ the locals as models he hit bad luck .
2 All night he had bad dreams , terrible dreams .
3 As well as being a dirty habit which encourages bad health , bad breath and bad manners , I could never sit and listen to an addict justify his addiction .
4 Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news .
5 ‘ There are a number of bishops in public life who attack bad language .
6 There were girls who persistently stayed out late , girls who kept bad company and girls who drank too much .
7 The typical conjecture is that if you protect car driver from their mistakes you encourage bad driving .
8 Even nasty guys who write bad books do n't deserve to be murdered by state-sponsored international terrorists . ’
9 But a system which institutionalises bad behaviour has something deeply wrong with it .
10 The civil servants ( not often wrong , but this time they gave bad advice ) wanted to remove this long example from the body of the Report , and relegate it to an appendix , or , better still , cut it out completely .
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