Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] so badly " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 2 | I suppose once we did n't need the coal so badly they closed the mine down , then the railway . |
| 3 | For fear of losing one or two sales of its obsolete mainframes , IBM designed the RT so badly that it had to junk the machine completely and start again from scratch to create the ( incompatible ) RS/6000 . |
| 4 | UNEMPLOYED Sandra Davies wants a job so badly she is tramping the streets at dawn pushing applications through letter-boxes . |
| 5 | Joanne had torn a ligament so badly refereeing a basketball match that she was on morphine for a week after hospital surgery , and could n't even walk let alone play golf . |
| 6 | He had never , he wrote to his superiors , seen an operation so badly planned or so amateurishly organized ; ‘ at the CIA , we really do run a better show than that . ’ |
| 7 | Crocker had damaged the Midland so badly that in 1986 the Bank of England sent in Sir Kit McMahon , its deputy governor , as chairman and chief executive to sort things out . |
| 8 | It was time to jettison a faith so badly shaken by events , and be a convert to outdated gradualism after all . |
| 9 | I decided it was unfair of me to say anything , and that if you wanted the trip so badly you probably did n't want me . |
| 10 | Tomorrow she would work , she would finish the shoes belonging to Emily Grenfell in the morning and then in the afternoon she would sole the heavy boots that Cleg the Coal so badly needed for his round . |
| 11 | A youth has been jailed for eighteen months for beating a man so badly his own father did n't recognise him . |