Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm so sorry , Veronica , you caught me at a bad moment , ’ Loretta said apologetically . |
| 2 | Mind you can always say to you caught me at a bad time , you say , it 's supposed to have appointment only , but just say , can you , is there any chance of you coming back . |
| 3 | I had no money , and she helped me over the worst times . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 8 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 9 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 10 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 11 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 12 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 13 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 14 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 15 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 17 | While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate . |
| 18 | His willingness to prostitute himself to the worst instincts of the electorate makes Neil Kinnock look like a beacon of moral and political rectitude . |
| 19 | Tippy lay back and prepared herself for the worst afternoon of her life . |
| 20 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 21 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 22 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 23 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 24 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 25 | With revenues plummeting , airlines clamoured for government support to help them through the bad times . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 27 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 28 | We do n't see it as a bad quality in women to put themselves down , we see it as a good one . |
| 29 | As I say I 've not had anything like the bad experience of it that a lot of people have had . |
| 30 | I do apo I was n't trying to put you as the bad boy on that end of the continual , I was n't Alan , I 'm |