Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonar Law has usually received a bad press from historians , who have portrayed him as a hard , dour , humourless fanatic . |
| 2 | He has really got a bad cold . |
| 3 | He has n't become a bad manager overnight . |
| 4 | The market for recycled material has recently hit a bad patch with falling prices . |
| 5 | Now I know Utopianism has recently had a bad press . |
| 6 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 7 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 8 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 9 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 10 | We would like them to acquire more , of course , but they do not have a bad record . |
| 11 | I must say Jean , you did n't do a bad job for woman ! |
| 12 | I did n't make a bad job . |
| 13 | Did n't seem a bad idea . |
| 14 | Sybillin was the worst of them but he did n't run a bad race in the circumstances , ’ the trainer added . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't have a bad curry on the last night , ’ I replied , after come consideration . |
| 16 | Particularly if you discover that that child did n't have a bad characteristic in their in their ego before this event occurred , and so on . |
| 17 | There were occasions yesterday when she did n't look a bad player , certainly trimmer and more mobile than when she played the game for real , and showing some nimble footwork which Lionel himself would have envied . |
| 18 | Because they do n't make a bad noise . |
| 19 | We 've been all through that we 've got the salaries re-graded and we do n't pay a bad wage now |
| 20 | 9 DO N'T PLAY A BAD GUY |
| 21 | Cult-turned-flagship Have I Got News For You garnered six million viewers this year , a BBC2 chart-topper , and , as Merton observes , ‘ You do n't hear a bad thing said about it ! ’ |
| 22 | They do n't look a bad colour as though do they ? |
| 23 | I 'm bloody sure I would n't of paid it no way , er , thing is though you see when you first look at it , it do n't look a bad car , but when you start studying it closely you start to see just exactly what problems it 's got with it did you point out the faults on it then ? |
| 24 | The superintendent grimaced as though her nostrils had suddenly detected a bad smell . |
| 25 | I 've just had a bad time . |
| 26 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 27 | Further , both Conservative and Labour Governments have sought to restrict increases in MPs ' pay so that Parliament does not give a bad example to the country and encourage more inflation . |
| 28 | In such instances they would need more training until an unexpected sensation does not cause a bad reaction . |
| 29 | Despite the moral panics which occasionally blow up — as for example when two IRA suspects escaped from Brixton prison in July 1991 — the English penal system does not have a bad record over ‘ security ’ , in the sense of keeping prisoners inside prison . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year . |