Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed ‘ being without anyone ’ is a misery far worse for a writer than bad reviews , or a nagging little illness , or a minor bereavement , or living under a bad government — Dorothy Osborne fared very well under the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're still listening to a bad PA , the music 's blowing all over the place , people are crashed out in the mud … it 's exactly the same ! ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Baudelaire 's light voice in my ear , passing on the bad news on Wednesday morning . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're heading for a bad attack of sunburn . ’ |
| 5 | The lighting cameraman may have been going through a bad patch , or simply been driven crazy by the sort of director who ca n't make up their mind about anything . |
| 6 | Soviet-American relations have been going through a bad patch since the beginning of the year , troubled by the crackdown on the Baltic states , differences in the Gulf war and an arms-control quarrel . |
| 7 | Did she see me pour the Finish 'Em into the punch ? ‘ I know we 're going through a bad patch at the moment . ’ |
| 8 | And the on-going tabloid obsession with Charles and Diana 's marriage : ‘ Oh , they must be going through a bad patch . |
| 9 | Above-average yields can sometimes be spotted on the convertibles of companies that are going through a bad patch , and these more risky recovery situations appeal to speculators . |
| 10 | But customers , too , have only recently begun to see the big picture : IBM is not just going through a bad patch , it is in serious , perhaps critical , trouble . |
| 11 | It is currently going through a bad patch of such uncertainty . |
| 12 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 13 | Even when they knew he was going through a bad patch they would continue to deliver dangerous back-passes to him . |
| 14 | ‘ Middlesbrough were going through a bad patch at the time . |
| 15 | But after plunging towards the relegation zone with just four points from the previous 21 , he admitted : ‘ We have been going through a bad time and We needed this win . ’ |
| 16 | I know you 're going through a bad time , but my main concern is Maureen . ’ |
| 17 | This denial was particularly important , since at the time the Thatcher administration was going through a bad period in terms of popular opinion on issues such as unemployment , social services , and housing . |
| 18 | They 're going through a bad period and they 'll be looking for a positive result as well . |
| 19 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 20 | I 've said to many years now about English weather in a sense it 's , it , it , it 's got a something of endearing quality , you do n't like going through the bad weather , but the fact is that we do get generally good weather |
| 21 | We set out the same night for Bug Bug , but failed to make our objective owing to the bad nature of the ground for the vehicles . |
| 22 | Owing to the bad weather conditions , the artillery were shooting blind . |
| 23 | But captain Graham Gooch waited almost 60 hours before phoning with the bad news at 9.30 yesterday morning . |
| 24 | And I was missing too many games complaining of a bad knee when there was nothing really wrong with it . |
| 25 | There 's no maintenance , no rates , no insurances , they 're in , they 're in a sort of bad s or getting into a bad state , so I do feel that we should try and put some priorities behind this erm , particular business link in Craven Arms . |
| 26 | Mum and Davey had gone to the morning service ; I stayed at home recovering from a bad cold . |
| 27 | The Aussie trio is led by newly-signed Steve Regeling who has moved from Exeter with Dave Cheshire , who spent most of last season recovering from a bad wrist injury , and Mark Lemon whose plans to move into the first division have been put on ice . |
| 28 | Sir Roger was still recovering from a bad car accident just before Christmas . |
| 29 | Listening to music and relaxing the muscles of the head and neck properly can be very effective ways of coping with a bad headache . |
| 30 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |