Example sentences of "have come [prep] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Latin America has come through the worst , ’ says OUP 's David Stewart . |
| 2 | The village founded by King Billy has come through the bad times and it has not surrendered . |
| 3 | ‘ We all feared this might happen and now it has come to the worst , ’ said one church-goer arriving for the service . |
| 4 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 5 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 6 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 7 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 8 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 9 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 10 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 12 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 13 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 15 | His first injury in English football could not have come at a worst time . |
| 16 | ‘ The weekly papers in the province seem to have come through the worst recession in living memory relatively unscathed . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook . |
| 18 | He cursed himself inwardly for this sudden indisposition , which had come at the worst possible moment . |
| 19 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |
| 20 | Yet those who have come off the worse from their dealings with Hamnett may have sharper recall , among them London 's high fashion retailers Joseph Ettedgui and Peter Bertelsen . |