Example sentences of "he [verb] a bad [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a bad Budget error on the threshold of the succession , many Tory MPs were said to prefer ( of all people ) Inskip , and there seems no doubt that Baldwin , had he wished , could have stirred up a good cauldron of uncertainty . |
| 2 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 3 | He gets terribly bad tempered if he plays a bad shot . |
| 4 | My son was about three week ago but it w it was n't as bad as this , he got a bad cough and |
| 5 | We 'd discussed taking a 1-iron , but he insisted on a 3-wood and , although he got a bad bounce , put it in the sand and took a bogey . |
| 6 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 7 | He caught a bad cold and , thinking that the disease had returned , took his life . |
| 8 | And he refuses to accept that he has a bad boy reputation which goes before him with officials . |
| 9 | ‘ Brian Williams went down on the ball once and had his head blatantly stamped on and he has a bad cut , ’ he added . |
| 10 | And if he played a bad shot , he let the spectators know about it . |
| 11 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 12 | Has he had a bad appraisal then or something . |
| 13 | ‘ When he puts a bad cross in , he 'll go down the line again a few minutes later and try once more . |
| 14 | He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up . |
| 15 | You will forgive him using but he had a bad fall yesterday and has damaged his ankle . |
| 16 | He had a bad cold and was shivering inside his dressing gown . |
| 17 | Well you see one of the l one of lads , naughty , he had to finish , but then he had a bad chest before |
| 18 | He had a bad attack of bronchitis during February and was forced to spend ten days in hospital . |
| 19 | One Sunday morning he had a bad attack during the service . |
| 20 | He had a bad back as well , you know , just like Rich . |
| 21 | Added Souness : ‘ He had a bad run with injuries and was unlucky . |
| 22 | ‘ He had a bad heart , Ana , ’ she said softly . |
| 23 | He had a bad eye , fixed , with a sinister pallor . |
| 24 | He 's getting on , you know , and — gentlemen of your age will understand he had a bad war , Arctic convoys and all that . |
| 25 | He had a bad moment between Chiswick and Richmond when a police car stayed on his tail for half a mile . |
| 26 | He grimaced as if he had a bad taste in his mouth . |
| 27 | The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years . |
| 28 | He had a bad arm . |
| 29 | If he makes a bad shot he says it 's because he 's blind but Gary says it 's because his technique is wrong . |