Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] bad " in BNC.

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1 He was not told that socio-economic circumstances meant that he could expect to get bad examination results .
2 I do n't want to hear bad reports about you . "
3 They did not refer me , and strangely I did not insist ; as patients do not want to hear bad news .
4 Y'know as a manager you do n't want to hear problems , you do n't want to hear bad news , you do n't want to hear disaster .
5 She was brought up very nicely and she does n't like to see bad in anyone .
6 There were many records of such manifestations , from reliable and intelligent observers , who had often described the curious incident before they could possibly have heard bad news from India or Australia , where at that moment a friend 's life was endangered .
7 It must have looked bad last night for Bill to say anything .
8 Match commander Peter Durham said : ‘ It might have looked bad , but nobody was hurt and the crowd did n't get involved — apart from one 11-year-old lad who joined in .
9 ‘ That would have looked bad — you should never be one of the stragglers at a party . ’
10 If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse .
11 I would have felt worse had they .
12 I would have felt bad all day otherwise . ’
13 ‘ When I saw that he had drunk it all , I knew he must have felt bad .
14 Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer .
15 I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’
16 By the next election , the lot of the Tottenham poor will have got worse , and the chance of alleviating it through economic growth will have receded .
17 Industrial output has stabilised , too , after falling over 60% in 1991–92 , the most precipitous economic collapse in Eastern Europe ( having fallen that far , it could hardly have got worse ) .
18 ‘ Things could have got worse .
19 It could not have gone worse for him when , in the 57th minute , he froze .
20 The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ .
21 … Just when it is desirable that ignorant men , new to politics , should have good issues , and only good issues , put before them , these statesmen will have suggested bad issues .
22 No , do n't tell get worse .
23 Do n't you go feeling bad now . ’
24 Primarily because it 's that time of the year when things will start going bad .
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