Example sentences of "made a bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stirling jumped as the first man of his stick and in the darkness made a bad landing as he could not see the ground . |
| 2 | The only snag was that Auger made a bad take-off and punctured one of his auxiliary tanks and broke off his tailwheel . |
| 3 | For the year to 30 September , Leeds Permanent Building Society made a bad debt provision of £105.3m , forcing profit before tax down to £152.7m ( v £290.2m ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The ref made a bad decision . |
| 5 | Having said the BMC made a bad move getting involved , the fact remains that access is now a major issue for mountain users ; not due to the traditional problems of a landowner barring access — there is much less of that these days . |
| 6 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 7 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 9 | To make up for the unkindness , he made a bad and nervous joke . |
| 10 | They made a bad start by losing to Worcestershire , who received a £4000 bonus as part of the sponsorship package . |
| 11 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 12 | The lord cardinal wished us to attend one more of his interminable banquets — and this is where I made a bad situation worse . |
| 13 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh God , I made a bad mistake there . |