Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [art] worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 2 | Of the dailies , Today 's circulation has registered the worst seasonal drop , falling to 466,631 from 513,673 . |
| 3 | Anna has seen the worst that people can do to each other . |
| 4 | Many western diplomats in Cairo believe that Mr Mubarak , though weakened , has weathered the worst and is capable of handling what could become a drawn-out war with Islamic extremists . |
| 5 | A firm of housebuilders has bucked the worst recession the industry 's ever known by increasing its profits by forty-five percent . |
| 6 | However , it seems likely that the world 's seventh-biggest economy has put the worst behind it . |
| 7 | Nick Barr , a keen supporter of loans , is of the opinion that the government has chosen the worst possible option , claiming that the scheme is inordinately expensive and that it will accentuate the middle class bias in access to higher education . |
| 8 | They would have endured the worst torment he could have devised rather than betray Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 9 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 10 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Having muttered the worst insult in the Greek language at his back Méli touched my wrist moistly . |
| 13 | Having survived the worst Braintree hit back well and it became a question of how much damage Dean Ford could inflict , firing away with penalties as Romford became increasingly fractious . |
| 14 | Mr MacGregor will then have created the worst of all worlds . |
| 15 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |
| 16 | Until last year Scotland seemed to have escaped the worst of the recession . |
| 17 | Anyone would think she had committed the worst crime in the world instead of simply having a little too much to drink and — well , behaving just a little foolishly . |
| 18 | To be fair , he had spent some time in the cities of North Africa and , as one might do in similar urban areas of Britain , he had met the worst of the indigenous population . |
| 19 | Lord above , I thought I had endured the worst of insults already this day ! |
| 20 | yeah but you 've done the worst of it have n't you ? |
| 21 | The 10,000 guests inside the base , including the Queen , the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen Mother , had suspected the worst for several hours as the gloomy weather showed little sign of lifting . |
| 22 | She had missed the worst of the scene this morning . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , I 'd go as far as to say you 've got the worst case of it I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 24 | when we 've got the worst bit . |
| 25 | It had proved a good move as the sector had avoided the worst excesses of the building slump . |
| 26 | He had played the worst of tricks on her , making her lose all her self-respect , and it was something that would rankle in her heart for the rest of her life . |
| 27 | He had swallowed the worst of his gall , although with a gulp that almost choked him . |
| 28 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 29 | This means growing credit problems for regional banks , some of which , tucked away in more sober parts of the country , had escaped the worst of Tokyo 's bubble-era excesses . |
| 30 | After his disappearance , he said , friends and family had searched the streets but after a week passed , they had feared the worst . |