Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Platt 's Juventus recovered from a bad defeat at Inter last week by thrashing Ancona 5–1 to move into fourth place . |
| 2 | Chairman Alan Potts explained : ‘ The Club went through a bad period in the eighties but happily we resolved the problems . ’ |
| 3 | Mum and Davey had gone to the morning service ; I stayed at home recovering from a bad cold . |
| 4 | THE YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB YEARBOOK 1992 — McDermott 's withdrawal came at a bad time : an anticipatory profile of the Queensland firebreather leads the 92nd edition , followed by a réumé of others born outside the county line . |
| 5 | A neglected cold turned to a bad fever and I was forced to stay behind in Newcastle , in hospital . |
| 6 | And the converters is that th the er commutators on the converters got in a bad state and er the engin the er Mr asked me what could you do with them . |
| 7 | Many local officers and shop stewards confessed to a bad conscience about seeing temporary workers coming in and then going out again to unemployment . |
| 8 | As we have already seen , the US dollar went through a bad patch in 1986 , in company with the oil market . |
| 9 | Sun sets on a bad week for the BBC |
| 10 | Then that might had to the worst side of the American trustee system developing . |
| 11 | Alan Bates stars as a middle-aged illustrator going through the worst mid-life crisis I have ever witnessed . |
| 12 | Every team goes through a bad patch . |
| 13 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 14 | Lack of confidence translates into a bad shot . |
| 15 | He had learned to bear their ridicule without so much as a tear , but the names Sweetheart called him when she was really angry could make his body hurt like a bad pain on the inside . |
| 16 | This will ensure that we help the Group come through the worse recession in our industry for many years , and that we are in place and able to contribute to the future upturn in the market . |
| 17 | The mist seemed like a bad omen and Sara 's heart sank a little . |
| 18 | The morning papers gave no hint of anything amiss and , in broad daylight , the events and the disturbing stories of the night seemed like a bad dream . |
| 19 | O'Connell seized on a bad back-pass to lob the winner . |
| 20 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
| 21 | In New York the Dow Jones index of stockmarket prices fell 508 points to 1,738.41 on Friday 16 October 1987 , a decline of 22.6% — almost double the 13% per cent drop seen on the worst day of the 1929 stockmarket crash . |
| 22 | IN a week when Mark McNulty has had to pull out of the Jersey European Airways Open with a bad back , Sam Torrance , the holder , has come to La Moye with his hands covered in blisters . |
| 23 | At least 159 people died in the worst ferry disaster in Scandinavian history when the 10,500-ton Danish-operated Scandinavian Star caught fire in the North Sea on the night of April 7 . |
| 24 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 25 | She is a classic product of the company , able to see a platinum lining in the worst cyclone . |
| 26 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 27 | And I was missing too many games complaining of a bad knee when there was nothing really wrong with it . |
| 28 | But there are other lessons to be drawn from what the war makes visible — in the image of a desert war bogged down in muddy trenches worthy of the Somme in the wettest Saudi winter in memory or in the prophetic footage of cormorants drowning in the worst oil disaster yet recorded . |
| 29 | All 39 hands perished in the worst shipping disaster in Teesside 's history . |
| 30 | The RUC moved in and triggered what Farrell describes as the worst rioting since 1935 . |