Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bonar Law has usually received a bad press from historians , who have portrayed him as a hard , dour , humourless fanatic . |
| 2 | He has really got a bad cold . |
| 3 | The market for recycled material has recently hit a bad patch with falling prices . |
| 4 | Now I know Utopianism has recently had a bad press . |
| 5 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 6 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 7 | It was this inability to up the run rate that coach Jim Love blamed for the defeat , though it has to be said that Storie had done well to repair a bad start when the Scots lost both openers , Bruce Patterson and Iain Philip , on 17 . |
| 8 | The superintendent grimaced as though her nostrils had suddenly detected a bad smell . |
| 9 | I 've just had a bad time . |
| 10 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 11 | Unfortunately Phil had unwittingly chosen a bad time to clash with the pirate radio vessel . |
| 12 | Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her . |
| 13 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 14 | ‘ If you have already experienced a bad marriage , you may feel that to marry again is to end up in the same sorry state . |
| 15 | Like those of Caracas , the stations of Mexico have generally had a bad press . |
| 16 | Evander just had a bad night . |
| 17 | Historically , women have always had a bad deal . |
| 18 | ‘ Like us , they have also experienced a bad start and I 'm sure they will want to get it right on Sunday . |
| 19 | In this tour through the modern world the way we run things comes to seem ever more absurd , a house of cards built upon endless bureaucracy — a paper chase that leaves us all working frantically to keep a worse quality of life . |
| 20 | Share salesmen , even after A-Day , have upraised their status in the eyes of clients by quotation of imaginary praise from other clients , e.g. " One of my clients is kind enough to say he 's never had a bad tip from me . " |
| 21 | Somebody once said , " I have never met a bad Quaker yet . " |