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Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a bad [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The place has given off a bad odour for years and I have always avoided it like the plague .
2	Traditionally , therefore , building societies have been extremely reluctant to grant women mortgages on their own , since they are generally regarded as a bad risk on the grounds of their present or future income .
3	This last point is sometimes regarded as a bad fault in basic training , but it is almost inevitable in a long-ranging competition reverse punch .
4	Thumb Sucking — If this is done frequently and perniciously it must be taken in hand and treated as a bad habit .
5	‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook .
6	‘ He 's probably come at a bad time , ’ said Pool 's longest serving player .
7	After that has been discovered the temperance reformer may decide that the corkscrew was made for a bad purpose , and the communist may think the same about the cathedral .
8	On another level policies are not irrational and their disjointed character is not seen as a bad thing by the apologists of incrementalism .
9	It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out .
10	And the converters is that th the er commutators on the converters got in a bad state and er the engin the er Mr asked me what could you do with them .
11	This means that an action can not be founded on a bad cause .
12	Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend .
13	You know you always talk too much when you 've got over a bad turn . ’
14	‘ Our friend who got knocked down by a car , Mr Nowak , has fallen into a bad coma and he 's on the critical list . ’
15	I therefore wrote to express the hope that I had not appeared to expect him to intervene ; that I did not necessarily disagree with what he said ; and that my underlying feeling was that the Baldwin government , though apparently trying to get rid of a bad king , might damage the monarchy at a time when a great international crisis seemed to be upon us .
16	But it takes a lot longer than a year to get rid of a bad reputation .
17	It 's a lot harder it 's a lot harder to get rid of a bad reputation .
18	Missouri-born King made songs like Laundromat Blues and Born Under A Bad Sign into blues standards .
19	An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ .
20	On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way .
21	‘ Not called at a bad moment , have I ? ’
22	She has been denounced as a bad influence on young girls ( who adore her ) , and Pepsi cancelled her commercials .
23	You 'll be known as a bad girl even if you 're as pure as the Prophet 's daughter . ’
24	He had learned to bear their ridicule without so much as a tear , but the names Sweetheart called him when she was really angry could make his body hurt like a bad pain on the inside .
25	Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned .
26	‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said .
27	The situation unfolded like a bad dream with vague premonitions of the events to come .
28	I think kids can get influenced in a bad way by music .
29	The first warm weather always had this same effect on him , ; d feeling of elation followed by a bad bout of homesickness .
30	Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed .