Example sentences of "had a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 2 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 3 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 4 | The children had had a bad spell with that , but she thought it was over now . |
| 5 | ‘ Miss Swift , ’ he said slowly , eyes narrowing , ‘ you 're tired , you 've had a bad shock and — ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 7 | I 'm sorry , I 've had a bad day . ’ |
| 8 | When he 's had a bad day he looks really sad . |
| 9 | School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day . |
| 10 | Her brief encounter with the Sun had evidently had a bad influence on her . |
| 11 | ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham . |
| 12 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 13 | Divorced people , and therefore single parents , have had a bad press lately . |
| 14 | Like those of Caracas , the stations of Mexico have generally had a bad press . |
| 15 | Cholesterol has had a bad press . |
| 16 | The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern . |
| 17 | ‘ And they 've had a bad press . |
| 18 | Comment clauses especially the more colloquial ones , such as you know , you see , and I mean — have had a bad press . |
| 19 | Now I know Utopianism has recently had a bad press . |
| 20 | The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile . |
| 21 | Er he 's a real action man , er and a great professional , and he lifts us all on Monday morning when we 've had a bad weekend er with his running and his enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Do n't be tempted to lie in and snooze if you 've had a bad night . |
| 23 | She thought : Gran is n't really ill , she 's only had a bad night . |
| 24 | He 'd obviously had a bad night had this poor bloke , you know . |
| 25 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 26 | He felt odd , queer , as if he 'd had a bad dream . |
| 27 | A servant 's had a bad dream , that 's all , and started screaming . |
| 28 | It was as if I 'd had a bad dream . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 30 | There 's , there 's one , something about a dog or something , involves describing somebody like a dog or that 's had a bad temper , I forget , there 's all sorts of words . |