Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 2 | In fact , many felt its power had become too great and thought it no bad thing when it was forced to close , I believe in 1932 or 1933 . |
| 3 | Simon Draper thought it a bad idea , but realised that argument was futile . |
| 4 | The church historian Norman Sykes thought it a bad choice for the see , too party a man for a see which needed breadth of mind . |
| 5 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 6 | Ramsey made a speech which disconcerted the managers of the conference , who thought it a bad example of English insularity . |
| 7 | And he gave me a bad ticket , bastard . |
| 8 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 9 | Often he was right , often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in . |
| 10 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 11 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |