Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’ |
| 2 | The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague . |
| 3 | It dominates the central belt of the country and maintains a huge dependent clientele , whom it has rewarded with the worst housing estates in Europe . |
| 4 | I tried to think of the worst thing that Quigley had done . |
| 5 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 6 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 7 | His ghost became known as the Bad Lord , it being a noxious POLTERGEIST who irritates the family 's descendants more as time goes by — roaring in the cellars , splintering furniture and frightening maidservants . |
| 8 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 9 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 10 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 11 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 12 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 13 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 14 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 15 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 16 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 18 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 19 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 20 | Nor could it have occurred at a worse time . |
| 21 | It is idle to speculate on the source of leaks — that I did learn in my years in Government — but what was certain was that the Telegraph story could not have appeared at a worse time . |
| 22 | This could n't have happened at a worse time . |
| 23 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 24 | The report painted a generally optimistic picture of Britain continuing to recover from the worst recession since 1945 . |
| 25 | This increase has clear policy implications since these elderly people tend to live in the worst accommodation , and owners often have difficulties in undertaking their own , or paying for , maintenance . |
| 26 | The illness and those involved faded like a bad dream . |
| 27 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
| 28 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 29 | He seems to assume I 'm about as liberal-minded as Genghis Khan and the annoying thing is , when he talks to me , I start sounding like the worst sort of reactionary . |
| 30 | But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation . |