Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've heard worse reasons . ’ |
| 2 | I 've had worse than that playing dominoes ! ’ , you should never tell the following jokes anywhere near the doctor 's surgery . |
| 3 | I suppose , in theory , I 've had worse times , but not many , and not much worse . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had worse . |
| 5 | I have heard worse things here . |
| 6 | ‘ I have seen worse storms than this . |
| 7 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 8 | The hard bench under her was n't conducive to restful slumber either , although she had known worse beds . |
| 9 | Yet for a time she had even got better , but then suddenly today — ‘ or yesterday now ’ he thought , looking at the luminous dials of the old clock he kept by his bed — she had got worse again . |
| 10 | Life at home is a bit of a battlefield and work is sadly staging a go slow but you have survived worse difficulties before and this tough period is nearly over Ugly what are you ? |
| 11 | We 've got worse . ’ |
| 12 | If anything , they 'd got worse . |
| 13 | ‘ They 've looked worse , ’ retorted Isabel drily . |
| 14 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 15 | He and Mrs Thatcher are having to face up to a crisis they have made worse by trying to deny it , and now they can not agree on who should do what or how or why . |
| 16 | Well he was a bit mad Elsie you know that and I am afraid he has got worse now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If anything , it has got worse . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 21 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 22 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 23 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 24 | He had managed to acquire a brown mark on his right cheek and in the centre of his chin , and a dark smear had appeared on the front of his shirt : this he had made worse by diligent rubbing . |
| 25 | It 's got worse since he took up golf again . |
| 26 | It 's been like this over a number of issues ever since the children were small , but it 's got worse since they 've been teenagers . |
| 27 | But but but since then it 's got worse . |
| 28 | If it 's got worse , why is it you 'd still like to stay ? |
| 29 | Oh it 's got worse ? |
| 30 | He 's … he 's so possessive of her , always has been , but it 's got worse of late , and … and of course it 's getting on her nerves . ’ |