Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 2 | ‘ They were all over me like a bad rash ’ , she told her friends . |
| 3 | I do apo I was n't trying to put you as the bad boy on that end of the continual , I was n't Alan , I 'm |
| 4 | But there was none of the bad feeling that marred last year 's contest at the end of the race and each crew cheering the other . |
| 5 | ‘ You in a bad mood or something ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 9 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 10 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 11 | Those applicants who wish to follow a career in this field can find rapid promotion , often within one or two years , to the role of secretary ( the one with the pen ) or chairperson ( the one with the bad back ) . |
| 12 | The man looked like something from a bad nightmare . |
| 13 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 14 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 15 | And the Cid and his people pursued , punishing them in a bad way . |
| 16 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 19 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 20 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 21 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 22 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 23 | He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action . |
| 24 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 25 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 26 | And Alan Yentob 's channel provided relief from the computer predictions with a Comic Strip ( BBC2 ) confection starring Adrian Edmondson as John Major and Robbie Coltrane as Mr Speaker , which showed just about everybody in a bad light . |
| 27 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 28 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 29 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 30 | She wondered whether this was going a bit far and glanced up , surreptitiously , at her mother : her wasted evening had left her in a bad mood , and she was determined to take it out on somebody . |