Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] a bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh God , I made a bad mistake there . |
| 3 | The lord cardinal wished us to attend one more of his interminable banquets — and this is where I made a bad situation worse . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'ad a bad day , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I got a bad eye . |
| 6 | I developed a bad case of hiccups , more like a series of jabbing uppercuts to the chin . |
| 7 | Sometimes I am a real power pack of efficiency ; then I hit a bad patch . |
| 8 | ‘ It was stupid , and I suppose I did a bad job of it , but it was not easy , offering to set aside my rigid Old-World principles and give you the freedom you wanted . ’ |
| 9 | Oh that 's better I had a bad back . |
| 10 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 11 | I had a bad night , really … ’ |
| 12 | I had a bad night . ’ |
| 13 | I had a bad night last night . |
| 14 | He recalls : ‘ I had a bad name when I first came into the league because I skated round trying to hit as many Canadians as possible to get myself noticed . |
| 15 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 16 | I had a bad thought . |
| 17 | I had a bad dose of influenza , if you must know . |
| 18 | ‘ I played football in my younger days till I had a bad injury in my knee which I 'm now suffering from — chronic arthritis . |
| 19 | I remember that I had a bad feeling about it . |
| 20 | So , though I had a bad time , well I had a , I 've had a great life since ! |
| 21 | I had a bad time at the hands of male journalists during Julian 's trial and in the period leading up to it : some residual paranoia sticks . |
| 22 | If somebody was interviewed by him and had a bad time , I can tell you I had a bad time , well to me it was a bad time , when I with him and he saw he spoke with me . |
| 23 | Not that I had a bad opinion of his character , ( I do n't know him ) , it is just that I feel most other clubs would not have even responded to you . |
| 24 | You got a bad earth . |
| 25 | ‘ But if you made a bad decision , or gave the wrong judgement against someone in a dispute , then some of your people might suffer . ’ |
| 26 | You can have one quick move and if it 's a false one well er you made a bad mistake and you 've gone back about er whatsit and I think 's done exactly the same here he 's sacked us and he 's put himself in er in er queer corner s like a game of draughts you know and he 's trying all roads to come out of it . |
| 27 | His mother died , then his wife , out with the local hunt , when she took a bad fall . |
| 28 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 29 | You took a bad fall — twenty feet , maybe — almost vertical . |
| 30 | As so often happened , she deliberated too long about the introduction of her own affairs , and when she finally found the courage to speak , she chose a bad moment . |