Example sentences of "come [prep] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a collision between the furtive sex of the old order and the impression of freer sex of the young , the Tories like the doomed professor in The Blue Angel three decades earlier had come off worse . |
| 2 | One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written |
| 3 | " But I dare say he 's impatient , " thought Hazel , " or he may have come off worst in some scuffle over a doe and taken it hard . |
| 4 | Jorge suddenly appeared at the door and Maggie did not wait to hear any answer ; she walked out of the room , scooping up her bag and swinging it over her shoulder , quite satisfied that this time Felipe de Santis had come off worst . |
| 5 | ‘ I wanted to come , ’ Maggie muttered , quite agreeing with him that she had come off worst in everything . |
| 6 | But as he says , our planet has managed to come through worse cataclysms than any we have so far invented , and there are always winners . |
| 7 | Proposals to replace our dry sow accommodation could not have come at worse time , with pig prices falling through the floor , and I suppose some would say that we are reacting plenty soon enough . |
| 8 | Bonanza , twice successful over jumps , can make full use of a light weight in the Levy Board Handicap ( 4.45 ) and Mossy Rose , who came off worst in a four-way photo-finish at Lingfield last month , is fancied for the Hardwick Handicap ( 5.45 ) . |
| 9 | Alec Davidson , for example , was one of those who came off worst . |
| 10 | Smokers came off worst from budget price rises : the cost of tobacco rose by 12 per cent in April , the month 's RPI figures reveal . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid George Cole came off worst from our partnership in Minder . |
| 12 | He said he and Mr Mitchell , who suffered a cut head and injured leg , came off worst in the accident . |
| 13 | ‘ You were limping as you came across Ana 's room and I would think you probably came off worst in this adventure . ’ |
| 14 | But he had a dark side , too , as I 'm sure everybody knows , and Seve Ballesteros could n't lace Weiskopf 's boots when it came to bad temper on the course . ’ |
| 15 | The Women 's Environmental Network ( WEN ) has recently disputed the results of two studies commissioned by Procter and Gamble , which compared the environmental impact of disposable and terry nappies , with terry nappies coming off worst ( Chem . |
| 16 | Thomas Malthus , first theorist of the dependency society and the true ancestor of present Conservative policies ( rather than Adam Smith , the preferred model ) , believed that women must always come off worst in the ‘ disgraceful ’ condition of poverty . |
| 17 | If Harry should come to worse harm through me — ’ |
| 18 | Villagers say things that begin too well are likely to end badly : early peach blossom , early geese , early beauty , even early love , ‘ all will come to bad ends , like whistling girls and crowing hens ’ . |
| 19 | But people come through worse . |
| 20 | And you you come off worse than anyone else and er but there 's no real way of speeding that up , they ca n't give |
| 21 | The ‘ crisis ’ is now a crisis for at most two or three large US banks , which have good reason to believe they can count on government help if worse comes to worst . |