Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.

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31 " Well … something 's put her in a bad form … "
32 Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood .
33 Not unexpectedly , we all learn to filter out data which puts us in a bad light , and we learn to tell our superiors what they want to hear .
34 Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable .
35 It 's a gun pull it at the bad guys and shoot .
36 He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action .
37 The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King .
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