Example sentences of "had a [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 2 | Sometimes if I 've had a particularly bad day and I go out there thinking I 'm going to have a particularly bad gig I 'll have a really great one . |
| 3 | In the history of sex the otherwise innocent ear has had a pretty bad deal . |
| 4 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 5 | Whatever they were talking about had had a very bad effect on the Quigleys . |
| 6 | The funny thing was this happened yards from where I had had a very bad motorcycle crash ten years before . |
| 7 | I think she must have had a really bad stroke . |
| 8 | This description , at the very start of our literature , sets the tone for accounts of wetlands , which through the ages have had a consistently bad press . |