Example sentences of "so bad as [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets .
2 Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed .
3 ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’
4 You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected !
5 If the worst of it all , he often thought , ended in a place like this , then nothing was ever so bad as you pretended .
6 so bad as she grew older .
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