Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] badly [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back .
2 He fell back , and started coughing so badly that even I was frightened .
3 Thomas suddenly started to shake so badly that the ice in his glass chattered .
4 His plan had misfired as badly as mine .
5 The work progressed well until it was discovered that the original iron braces inserted into the stonework by Scott had rusted very badly and expanded several inches , forcing the stonework upwards .
6 Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw .
7 They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools .
8 She was the Major 's gundog and had pined so badly when her master died , Blanche had considered putting her down .
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