Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first came into the Hampshire team , Greenidge 's natural inclination was to attack every ball , and it was Richards more than anyone who taught him restraint , taught him to wait for the bad ball . |
| 2 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 3 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 4 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |
| 6 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 7 | TO ENTER Romania is to sink into a bad dream . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact we did more to rationalize in the bad years than most companies in the field by closing down surplus plants and so on , ’ he continued . |
| 9 | The machines which they order in the good times are apt to arrive in the bad times , when the products can not so easily be sold and when borrowing costs are exceptionally high . |
| 10 | You 're quite reluctant to think of the bad points because it suddenly seems like the most perfect patch of land on this planet . |
| 11 | It will do you good , help you to get over the bad time you 've just had . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is pretty clear they have got the message from institutional shareholders , ’ but he warned that it could take years for Barclays to recover from the bad lending made in the late 1980s . |