Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 11 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 12 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 13 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 17 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |
| 18 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 21 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 22 | We do n't see it as a bad quality in women to put themselves down , we see it as a good one . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | And the Cid and his people pursued , punishing them in a bad way . |
| 25 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 26 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 28 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 29 | Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't mean it in a bad way , but teams are rolling us over . |