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

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1 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 .
2 The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making .
3 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 .
4 This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it .
9 Sheila could not have desired a worse profession .
10 He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
11 ‘ Without any treatment the tumour seems to have got no worse .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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