Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [noun pl] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister has made matters worse . |
| 2 | But many say the chicane built in their village has made matters worse |
| 3 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 4 | Although there were many existing and potential foreign competitors in the car industry , car prices in Britain were already significantly higher than in other EC countries and such a dominant company could have made matters worse . |
| 5 | He would have liked to have gone to his brother 's funeral but he thought it would only have made matters worse . |
| 6 | The coroner Nicholas Gardner said the Metro driver 's attempts to regain control of her car may have made matters worse . |
| 7 | His intellectual approach to the management of human resources seems to have made matters worse . |
| 8 | Those who win money on the horses at Kirkby Lonsdale races in Cumbria can quickly sober up if they wander down from the racecourse to see how their rates have been spent on the adjacent reaches of the river Lune , where the recently cemented banks are dramatically caving in , and attempts at bank protection appear to have made matters worse . |
| 9 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 10 | Second , Congressional reform had made matters worse ; it had ‘ really messed up the way the Congress effectively works . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're forgetting , I 've always known how to spell her name , ’ she said , and realised at once she had made matters worse . |