Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has selected bad squads , putting continuity before form … the Waddle Factor . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank has suffered a slide in profits to £20.9 million from £57.7 million and has seen bad debts soar . |
| 3 | The British banger has suffered bad publicity in recent years from Europe . |
| 4 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 5 | One person has had bad side effects , the rest of our callers think it 's wonderful . |
| 6 | Well he was a bit mad Elsie you know that and I am afraid he has got worse now . |
| 7 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 8 | Fouling of the churchyard by dogs has got worse and the PCC are considering erecting notices asking owners to control their pets . |
| 9 | Ten ways life has got worse under the Tories |
| 10 | Since we moved here the asthma has got worse . |
| 11 | The injury has got worse and if I continue playing it wo n't get any better . ’ |
| 12 | If anything , it has got worse . |
| 13 | Unfortunately his ear problem has continued and if anything has got worse since our return . |
| 14 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 15 | Since the Spirit of Free Enterprise disaster , the conditions on the ferries has got worse . |
| 16 | I re-read the speech that I gave in this full council chamber on November the twentieth nineteen ninety one nothing has changed except possibly it has got worse . |
| 17 | She has got bad spots . |
| 18 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 19 | Consideration of the effects of stress in the workplace has meant that for many employers the workaholic has become bad news . |
| 20 | Victor Lewis-Smith has elevated bad taste into an art form . |
| 21 | IT is difficult to tell whether Tuesday 's leadership ballot in the Conservative Party has caused bad blood among the Thatcherites ; the Downing Street bunker is too well insulated for any sounds of strife to be audible outside . |
| 22 | For example , the mental-health establishment , behaving as though it has sniffed bad news , is publicly agitating for full-fledged inclusion in the benefits programme . |
| 23 | ‘ Even though you thought I was fond of Simon , even though you believed I 'd felt bad about cheating on him ? ’ she protested . |
| 24 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 25 | If anything , they 'd got worse . |
| 26 | She 'd had bad times before she got the flat , but with the flat and the job she felt herself well off She worked from six in the morning to a quarter to nine , getting the offices clean and tidy for the staff who came in at nine o'clock , and for two hours in the evening , from six-thirty to eight-thirty . |
| 27 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 28 | And he had , kept getting bad , and he 'd had bad heads oh for years but he just thought that was , he was one of them people that got bad heads . |
| 29 | I seem to 've had bad vibes about you lately . |
| 30 | It 's the work of Geoff Oakes , a quietly-spoken young man from Stoke who went to the Haçienda one night in 1988 and got bitten bad . |