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

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1 Do nothing that may give it a bad name .
2 I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’
3 You could call it a bad year .
4 In fact , many felt its power had become too great and thought it no bad thing when it was forced to close , I believe in 1932 or 1933 .
5 Simon Draper thought it a bad idea , but realised that argument was futile .
6 The church historian Norman Sykes thought it a bad choice for the see , too party a man for a see which needed breadth of mind .
7 Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival .
8 Ramsey made a speech which disconcerted the managers of the conference , who thought it a bad example of English insularity .
9 The odd tipple wo n't make it a bad habit !
10 On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ .
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