Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a [adv] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 2 | In the history of sex the otherwise innocent ear has had a pretty bad deal . |
| 3 | I think she must have had a really bad stroke . |
| 4 | " He must have got an exceptionally bad one . |
| 5 | To have cancelled the conference would have created an equally bad impression . |
| 6 | There were plenty of excuses ( she had endured a very bad journey to Paris , the going was appallingly heavy , and her regular jockey William Lane was injured and could not take the ride ) , and she resumed her winning ways later that month with an easy stroll in the Free Handicap at Newmarket . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got a really bad headache … |
| 8 | But like it 's different if you 've got a really bad cold and sometimes you have to , you ca n't like sometimes you can hide it but I do n't go in front of someone I always do it discreetly . |
| 9 | Whatever they were talking about had had a very bad effect on the Quigleys . |
| 10 | The funny thing was this happened yards from where I had had a very bad motorcycle crash ten years before . |
| 11 | Sometimes if I 've had a particularly bad day and I go out there thinking I 'm going to have a particularly bad gig I 'll have a really great one . |
| 12 | Because ‘ Big T ’ , Tom , had got a very bad record for sacking caddies , I was very apprehensive . |
| 13 | One firm in particular had proved a very bad loser , making certain hostile comments about him to the Press . |
| 14 | You have made a very bad decision and something must be done . |
| 15 | Free-electron lasers on the whole have had a rather bad press . |
| 16 | This description , at the very start of our literature , sets the tone for accounts of wetlands , which through the ages have had a consistently bad press . |
| 17 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 18 | Erm what I wanted to say is , erm , in response to the lady in the red , was that a lot of feminists have a lot to answer for because , in the sense , men erm can be discriminat , well not discriminated but we can say things about men which are generalizations , whereas if a , one man says one generalized thing about a woman , then he 's just , you know chauvinists is everything , and he 's got a really bad name to him , so I think it 's got to be looked at from both sides . |
| 19 | I mean , to open it , they , they just sort of did n't twig , but like , they 're the sort of people that wine , cos Mark 's got a really bad influence on these people , he gets them he gets everybody really drunk . |
| 20 | Some people have got a real bad Nottingham accent . |