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

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1 I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea .
2 Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 .
3 ‘ Randolph , you must help us quickly ’ he gasped , ‘ Rudolph , you dad has caught a bad cold and will not be able to pull the sleigh tonight .
4 Anna has seen the worst that people can do to each other .
5 Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths .
6 The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making .
7 Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past .
8 The intensely religious former viceroy of India and wartime ambassador to Washington has had a bad write-up .
9 Cholesterol has had a bad press .
10 She has had a bad time .
11 ‘ If the Queen thinks she has had a bad year , look at me — my whole life has been pretty horribilis , ’ said Olive , from Birmingham .
12 And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded .
13 Not everybody has had a bad war .
14 School Social Worker is here and has had a bad day .
15 The Transport Secretary is a very genial Scot who has had a bad press but can take it with a smile .
16 No but I mean he has had a bad start
17 Boards A , B , C , D have all started , although D has got a bad start by not passing close behind the start boat .
18 Networking , too , has got a bad name these days , as the scandalous links between Tokyo 's politicians , bureaucrats and businessmen are exposed .
19 Unfortunately Banbury has got a bad reputation among boat users in the past and the council is doing little to dispel it .
20 Well no , he has got a bad throat an you know , he had a little lump in his throat , I think they thought it was cancer or something or a little growth , but you often get that in the throat .
21 But if he has , I do n't think it follows that Fathers and Children has become a bad book in his eyes , but rather , it is now not all that good .
22 Many western diplomats in Cairo believe that Mr Mubarak , though weakened , has weathered the worst and is capable of handling what could become a drawn-out war with Islamic extremists .
23 RIGHT Intelligent and loyal , the German Shepherd dog is another breed which , like the Rottweiler , has gained a bad reputation in the popular press .
24 Good technology has gained a bad name .
25 Any human being who has eaten a bad oyster , spent a night in agony , and vowed never to touch oysters again , will understand this .
26 A firm of housebuilders has bucked the worst recession the industry 's ever known by increasing its profits by forty-five percent .
27 However , it seems likely that the world 's seventh-biggest economy has put the worst behind it .
28 On May 26th a full-blown review of the matter was announced , but it has left a bad smell of abuse of power .
29 ‘ Creative ’ writing has acquired a bad name ; it has been contrasted with proper grammatical writing , and has come to be numbered among the suspect activities of the Loony Left , or at least with the ‘ soft ’ brigade .
30 The first of these is older than the second , and has acquired a bad name ; indeed , it acquired it fairly early , in some part from the monumental and unappealing system of Herbert Spencer .
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