Example sentences of "on a bad day " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel at first that on a bad day ( there are quite a few ) Patrick might give it one of the kicks that the novelist seems about to direct at his readers . |
| 2 | Even on a bad day he is worth watching , for a few seconds of his lightning , elegant attacks eclipses an evening of mauling aggression . |
| 3 | Pictures of old , tired faces : Madge 's made vacant by drugs , Bella 's grey with pain on a bad day , threw themselves like projected images on to the white kitchen wall . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 5 | He often succeeds in making his playing sound almost improvisatory , just as Poulenc himself did , but unlike the composer on a bad day , Tacchino is also scrupulously accurate . ( ) |
| 6 | Instead of a freeze-dried New England accent , Phillips gives us a combination of weird sister , deranged Southern matron and Mary Martin on a bad day . |
| 7 | If she 's in a good mood she 'll time Ted 's egg by the 8.05 to Edinburgh ; on the other hand , on a bad day she 'll shout at Ted to make his own bloody breakfast and curse at Frieda for wasting good food on her plate . |
| 8 | You might be 37 or 42 when you suddenly see your reflection on a bad day and are shocked to discover you 're not the 32 you feel inside . |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , go on , Mam , you 'd need tea on a bad day like this , ’ Patsy said encouragingly . |
| 10 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 11 | It is more important to achieve a difficult target on a bad day than a good one because it will increase your confidence still further . |
| 12 | We pushed down , the route-finding difficult and the weather like Scotland on a bad day , wet and misty . |
| 13 | 1 How do you wear eyeliner past the age of 20 without looking like Cleopatra on a bad day ? |
| 14 | As many fishkeepers , and probably all cichlidophiles , know the Lake Malawi Mbuna are fish of rocky habitats , with behavioural habits sometimes reminiscent on occasions , to Ghenghis Khan on a bad day . |
| 15 | However , on a bad day chaos reigns , and nobody can predict a likely departure time . |
| 16 | We knew we had Roseanne Barr 's capacity to be fat and sexy and , on a bad day , any one of us could be Grace Jones — Terminator 3 ? |
| 17 | You know , the one where you sit there and lie through your teeth about spending every waking hour flossing and probing and massaging and never go out of an evening without your single-headed brush , and the Aussie hygienist who looks like Brooke Shields on a good day takes one prod at your gum and it spouts blood like Moby Dick on a bad day and the game 's up there and then . |
| 18 | This needs to be done on such occasions , to make people feel involved and committed — they are then more likely to turn up , even on a bad day ! |
| 19 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 20 | A Sheila na gigh which now resembled Beirut on a bad day . |
| 21 | Some of the guys who are going for 10 million these days would n't even tie Cuntonas boots on a bad day . |
| 22 | It looked like the Oxford Mail on a bad day . |