Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " 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 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Few ever recovered their status in society , he said , or got rid of the bad habits they contracted while there . |
| 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 particular , she could have done without the bad jokes . |
| 9 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 10 | The illness and those involved faded like a bad dream . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation . |
| 13 | It 's a lot harder it 's a lot harder to get rid of a bad reputation . |
| 14 | I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us . |
| 15 | I think kids can get influenced in a bad way by music . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 17 | It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out . |
| 18 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 19 | You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’ |
| 20 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |
| 21 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 22 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 23 | She had thought the quantities of gilt ( never did she credit that it might be real gold ) an evidence of shocking vulgarity , had sneered at the bad taste of the ornate picture frames , at the ridiculous excesses of the pictures themselves , and had felt a solid , suburban scorn for the frayed and patched tapestry chair seats and the faded hangings : she had wondered why , if so rich , they did not throw out their tatty Persian coverings , and buy themselves a good bit of fitted Wilton or Axminster in a good plain colour . |
| 24 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 25 | To them I 'll say you 'll find things are strange for a time but , with the help of your colleagues , you 'll soon find your feet but , for yourselves , avoid falling into the bad habits of others . |
| 26 | That morning Margaret had complained of a bad bout of sickness . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |