Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [art] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 4 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 5 | Unlucky Wales : they are widely thought to have a worse chance against the tourists than either Neath or Llanelli . |
| 6 | got to get the worse judgement , because they are more responsible |
| 7 | The laws are fairly insignificant when set beside the economic problem , and the near certainty that , even if all its present plans work out , the Government will be compelled to report a worse economic record in its third Parliament than its second . |
| 8 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 9 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 13 | Sheila could not have desired a worse profession . |
| 14 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 15 | ‘ Without any treatment the tumour seems to have got no worse . |
| 16 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 17 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 18 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |