Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a [adv] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But I had a very bad experience there again .
2 The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘
3 Yes in , when when the youngest one , cos I had a very bad confinement over the youngest one , and er Doctor sa said , he said , he asked , You do n't want any more , my doctor that was then , not Doctor because I was I was n't under Doctor then .
4 She had a really bad time .
5 There was a lot of spit and the teeth bumped into yours which meant that you were spitting chips of enamel afterwards , and she kissed with her eyes open and she had a very bad squint — so you always thought that she was watching something else .
6 a blockage yeah it goes right across you , you 've got you 've got catarrh and I 'm thinking you can only have catarrh if you 've got a , you know if you had a real bad cold and or the flu or something but she said it 's all in there .
7 He wrote to his mother : We had a very bad winter here .
8 We had a very bad trip , needless to say , and we saw very little of Sam until he emerged from his cabin at Oban looking very much the worse for wear .
9 I 'm worried about that because we had a very bad experience in Stirling before so
10 We had a very bad time with Ken , the buyer at first .
11 Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested .
12 He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap .
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