Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [art] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martinho and I must have seemed a bad pair to him . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I must have had a bad dream and screamed in my sleep . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 4 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 6 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 7 | Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared . |
| 8 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 9 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 10 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 11 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 12 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |