Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] bad [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had witnessed a bad thing last night . |
| 2 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 3 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 4 | THE Duchess of York told millions of TV viewers last night that she , too , had suffered a bad year — and blamed herself for it . |
| 5 | These elements were inspired by his own experiences during the break-up with Sandra after she had suffered a bad LSD experience in her search for enlightenment . |
| 6 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 7 | Spartan Missile had made a bad mistake at the eighteenth and Thorne was giving him plenty of time to recover . |
| 8 | The hotel had much to keep youngsters occupied , but by day three we realised we had made a bad mistake in taking such a young child skiing . |
| 9 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 10 | Despite her defiant words , though , she had the feeling that she had made a bad mistake during these last few minutes . |
| 11 | Making herself examine this thought , slowly and properly turning it around in her mind , recreating the scene which she could see so vividly of Jasper and Bert with the two I.R.A. , she had to admit that Jasper and Bert had made a bad impression . |
| 12 | In the difficult job of getting through one 's life happily , she had made a bad start . |
| 13 | The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern . |
| 14 | The children had had a bad spell with that , but she thought it was over now . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 16 | Tony had had a bad start , 2 over after 5 , and Jack had brought it back to 1 again . |
| 17 | Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism . |
| 18 | Strawberry had had a bad time . |
| 19 | She said she had had no bad modelling experiences but that running around Ravenhill at a recent Ulster rugby game against Australia in front of 15,000 whistling fans had proved ‘ very embarrassing ’ . |
| 20 | If we had to cite a bad point , it would be the hard-to-reach drain plug on the rear axle housing . |
| 21 | Pilate 's wife sent him a message begging him to have nothing to do with Jesus as she had experienced a bad dream because of him . |
| 22 | He had supported the Bad Godesberg programme and was loyal to the Atlantic alliance . |
| 23 | One was the awful unfairness of it all , as it really had n't been her fault that Ethel had cast a bad spell on the broomstick she had lent to Mildred , thus ruining the display . |
| 24 | ‘ Their experiences at Darlington had left a bad taste in the mouth . |
| 25 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 26 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |