Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 2 | Either they ca n't afford private health insurance or the American insurance companies regard them as a bad risk to be acceptable . |
| 3 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 4 | ‘ They were all over me like a bad rash ’ , she told her friends . |
| 5 | I do apo I was n't trying to put you as the bad boy on that end of the continual , I was n't Alan , I 'm |
| 6 | ‘ You think you buy into somewhere crime can not reach and then it hits you with the worst kind . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You in a bad mood or something ? ’ |
| 8 | Blur , the Valentines and Dinosaur Jr on in the wrong order , at the wrong time , in the wrong place , before the wrong crowd , using inappropriate equipment , and putting you in the worst mood you could hope to be in for the Mary Chain ? |
| 9 | ‘ Look , I 've got you at a bad moment , sorry . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've obviously caught you at a bad moment . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh — have I caught you at a bad time , dear ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You know you put me in a bad position going off like that . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 16 | That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money . |
| 17 | And the Cid and his people pursued , punishing them in a bad way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 21 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 22 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 23 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 24 | ‘ I helped her through a bad time , you see . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Assuming that she is asymptomatic , she either depends on the male who infected her to inform her of the diagnosis or , if he does not , wait for the next person with whom she has intercourse to develop symptoms , discover the diagnosis , and then contact her with the bad news . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Only the last of these put him in a bad light , but it is enough . |