Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | He has n't become a bad manager overnight . |
| 4 | The market for recycled material has recently hit a bad patch with falling prices . |
| 5 | Now I know Utopianism has recently had a bad press . |
| 6 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 7 | Further , both Conservative and Labour Governments have sought to restrict increases in MPs ' pay so that Parliament does not give a bad example to the country and encourage more inflation . |
| 8 | In such instances they would need more training until an unexpected sensation does not cause a bad reaction . |
| 9 | Despite the moral panics which occasionally blow up — as for example when two IRA suspects escaped from Brixton prison in July 1991 — the English penal system does not have a bad record over ‘ security ’ , in the sense of keeping prisoners inside prison . |
| 10 | I mean , de a I , I think he does n't do a bad job on to be fair |
| 11 | I mean he does the big functions and he does n't do a bad job |
| 12 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 13 | 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 . " |