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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] a bad [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable .
2	‘ They were all over me like a bad rash ’ , she told her friends .
3	‘ You in a bad mood or something ? ’
4	‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry .
5	‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment .
6	‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’
7	He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures .
8	While I ca n't say I actually enjoyed the experience — as usual , two shirts flaked me out and put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day — I did find the whole process a whole lot easier on the nerves than throwing a glass of water across a shirt in the hope that somehow the creases , along with the water , would eventually evaporate .
9	‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that .
10	And the Cid and his people pursued , punishing them in a bad way .
11	Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will .
12	‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox .
13	‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’
14	He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake .
15	He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light .
16	‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see .
17	He might well be creating havoc with her pulse-rate , but he was only doing it to comfort her after a bad day ; it did n't mean there was anything personal in the action .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough .
22	She wondered whether this was going a bit far and glanced up , surreptitiously , at her mother : her wasted evening had left her in a bad mood , and she was determined to take it out on somebody .
23	" Well … something 's put her in a bad form … "
24	Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it .
25	I think you just caught him at a bad moment .
26	‘ 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 .
27	So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign .
28	Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’
29	We do n't see it as a bad quality in women to put themselves down , we see it as a good one .
30	But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’