Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 I think you just caught him at a bad moment .
3 Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it .
4 He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
5 Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough .
6 Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood .
7 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 .
8 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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