Example sentences of "[adv] badly " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixties , polls showed that , even if they believed that they themselves were doing rather well , most British people felt that their country was doing rather badly , and falling further behind foreign competitors . |
| 2 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 3 | But good bloodily triumphs at the end of a film made by James Marcus rather like a Warner Brothers gangster picture set incongruously in Soho and gone rather badly off-key . |
| 4 | He had n't on the one occasion he 'd been there — in fact they 'd treated him rather badly , although he did n't like to admit as much . |
| 5 | In the major religions of the world , women seem to fare rather badly . |
| 6 | Sweden has recorded an 8.4 per cent fall in industrial production in 1991 , a figure which compares rather badly with the United Kingdom 's latest year-on-year figure of 1.1 per cent . |
| 7 | There is just one catch to all this , which is , that in some races , notably Divisions 1 and 11 , there is a rather badly constructed rule that tries to limit the amount of pumping you are allowed to do . |
| 8 | In fact , things went rather badly . |
| 9 | One night we had a crash landing , when a plane from another air field had to land at Bourn in a bit of a hurry , having been shot up rather badly on the way back from Germany . |
| 10 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 11 | I took them to school for Sports Day and decided to try them out by sprinting across the school gymnasium , and I spiked up the wooden floor rather badly . |
| 12 | I 'm afraid I behaved rather badly . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Really , it 's all so complicated , but it seems I was being rather badly advised . |
| 14 | Three British women were thrown through the bookshop window , arrested , taken into custody and treated rather badly . |
| 15 | They had enjoyed my Watering-Place , a collection of interlinked sketches about Tunbridge Wells , lately published ( 'We 'd been rather badly off for books ' ) , and they had tales of other writers . |
| 16 | The cause of the creep is most probably simply that , in the amorphous part of the cellulose , the rather badly stuck hydroxyls take advantage of changes in moisture and temperature to shuffle away from their responsibilities . |
| 17 | At that time , we were rather badly off . ’ |
| 18 | Central Gully on Great End kept up its yearly performance when the cornice collapsed with a climber attached ( Sunday , March 3 ) — he and his partner were swept down the gully ( unfortunately one was rather badly hurt ) picking four others up en-route . |
| 19 | I remember I sang terribly , and he played rather badly , but in fact we ended up singing ‘ Do n't Cry For Me , Argentina ’ and it was fine . |
| 20 | It was entirely grassless and a little soft underfoot , and it sloped rather badly down towards the sea by the midwicket boundary . |
| 21 | Conversely , an ad which is difficult to recall in detail , but ( say ) highly emotive and therefore , probably , rather effective , would score rather badly . |
| 22 | Sir I will take this on board , but I think it comes rather badly from an authority in fact both authorities which have so shown so many confusing changes of mind about this area in the whole process since the first plan was issued , that the er details of the consideration by one of the constituent bodies of this erm objection er should be er examined er in such detail . |
| 23 | Had kept all of them just for the proud thrill of his in truth rather badly formed hand . |
| 24 | Then Aunt Bessie had a stroke , more than one in fact , and burned herself rather badly , because she apparently suffered one when she was bending down to tend the fire . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought unit trusts were doing rather badly , ’ Charles tried maliciously , but Miles was unruffled . |
| 26 | I think that black kids are treated rather badly in this school , for example , there are less black kids in the ‘ A ’ band . |
| 27 | I walked from Holborn but as I got close I discovered the attraction of setting foot in there again had faded rather badly . ’ |
| 28 | On its bonnet , someone has rather badly — painted a pattern of green leaves and fat flowers . |
| 29 | The scheme with which the Secretary of State has been landed is almost word for word the proposition set out in the pamphlet in 13 rather badly argued pages . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been buzzing along quite well lately but the murder — the real murder , that is — has thrown me rather badly . |