Example sentences of "[pron] bad [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us consider this line at its worst and discount the farm , which can be counted only as ‘ corroborative ’ evidence of alignment , and even then only if prehistoric remains are to be found there . |
| 2 | A line stretching beyond the range of his vision , above or below him , becomes a fearsome thing — at its worst when curving over and behind him . |
| 3 | There 's nuffink worse than watchin' people workin' around yer . ’ |
| 4 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 5 | ‘ Under Reagan , everything bad that happened was either my fault or Nixon 's fault or Congress 's fault or some foreigner 's … |
| 6 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 7 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them . |
| 8 | There 's nothing worse than learning that an act has been signed somewhere else and you never even got a chance to hear them |
| 9 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 10 | Lucien could imagine nothing worse than trying to eat in front of these people . |
| 11 | There 's nothing worse than keeping something like that to yourself It cracked me up terrible . |
| 12 | A good tight-fitting cap or hat is useful since there is nothing worse than groping about in the dark to recover a wind-blown hat . |
| 13 | There 's nothing worse than arriving fifteen minutes late for a lecture or laboratory practical to find out that other students have stolen a march on you . |
| 14 | There must be nothing worse than to find , after a couple of decades of academic graft , that there is a whole world of ideas out there of incomparable pedigree that has become inaccessible . |
| 15 | The realities of being in a situation where you ca n't choose your employment , which is an awful way to be when you do n't have any skills and you have to take whatever is dished out … there 's nothing worse than having to take what 's available . |
| 16 | The second act rather concentrates on Chaplin 's ‘ non American ’ activities ( nothing worse than having Socialist views and an interest in Russia ) but it was enough to drive him out of the country . |
| 17 | Now we 're fortunate with with this that if I turn it on it 's very quiet but if any of you had and I 'm sure Jeff you 've probably seen it where you get some older machines and the fan in there rattles like mad and there 's nothing worse than having that thing rattling all all the day . |
| 18 | I 'm sure you will agree that there 'd be nothing worse than to start into a erm er , regeneration idea on an estate and then have a a year or two 's hiatus where nothing can happen because we 're er pushing the hag funding elsewhere in the town . |
| 19 | I made no protest at the time , though people asked me to , because I said ‘ there 's nothing worse than arguing against a foolish argument . |
| 20 | There is nothing worse than sitting through shots which wobble around and zoom in and out while the camcorder operator is getting things sorted out . |
| 21 | There is nothing worse than playing a bass guitar — without an amp because you ca n't afford one yet — all on your jack up in your bedroom . |
| 22 | There is nothing worse than playing two superb shots to get within spitting distance of the green on that monster par five , then fluffing two chips and three-putting to end up with the dreaded double-bogey . |
| 23 | Research for the 1974 Press Commission confirmed both that they enjoyed their paper less than readers of the populars and that they would miss it worse if deprived of it . |
| 24 | I ca n't imagine anything worse than doing a function for three or four because by the , by the laws of average how the hell are you gon na get it out to them all as it should be ? |
| 25 | I could n't think of anything worse and suggested she tear the plan up . |