Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun] worse " in BNC.

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1 But erm lately he has got a lot worse .
2 But with no sign of a slowdown in the housing crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’
3 But with no sign of a slowdown in the crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’
4 She feels terrible but , if the gynaecologist is at all high-handed , brusque or falsely cheerful , she is going to feel a lot worse .
5 Theresa , who does n't mind being called a whore but starts screaming if anyone calls her retarded , is the kind of character who seems to promise a fate worse than rape , but the greatest violence reside in Al , who tries to calm himself with images of lambs , only to have them open their mouths to show him teeth and worms .
6 It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’
7 Well she she told me that your M E type symptoms had got a lot worse and I said that 's we had at That 's what I chatted with her about the other day but
8 I 've tasted a lot worse .
9 ‘ Bassett had taken a lot worse and not reacted .
10 But Greece 's have become a lot worse than most other people 's because of a couple of things those centuries it spent under Ottoman rule did to it .
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