Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a [noun] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GLOBAL electronic mail , with desktop computers linking Courtaulds businesses round the world , has moved a step nearer reality . |
| 2 | A proposed rail link between Oxford , Aylesbury and Milton Keynes has moved a step nearer reality this afternoon with the decision by Buckinghamshire County Council to invest in the project . |
| 3 | But erm lately he has got a lot worse . |
| 4 | The Captain stops writing and listens more intently to the speaker on the wall — the PIN net has got a lot busier all of a sudden . |
| 5 | Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be . |
| 6 | ‘ The year has started a bit stronger , so we 're hoping that with the end of the VAT threat for the meanwhile and after two lean years , this will continue . ’ |
| 7 | It would have looked a lot worse if I had n't a proper motive for meeting you in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd have felt a lot happier . ’ |
| 9 | If I was outside I would have got a lot better treatment . |
| 10 | By this time though , judging what footholds you can and can not use on this bizarrely rippled slab , should have become a touch clearer . |
| 11 | All I know is that I 've felt a mite sadder every time an indie distributor like Making Waves or Red Rhino have hit the dust . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 14 | see like , now they 've gone a bit quieter now , have you noticed ? |
| 15 | I 've tasted a lot worse . |
| 16 | ‘ Bassett had taken a lot worse and not reacted . |
| 17 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 18 | The other boarding school story is a photo-story , and shows that headmistresses have got a lot younger since I was at school — and a lot nicer ! |
| 19 | Well I , I think after this er people have n't appreciated yet that they 've , the grounds have become a bit safer than they were the hooligan element seemed to be taking over , they have er closed circuit television now , at Walsall , so they can get to the hot spot of any trouble and er they erm the ground |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's gone a bit colder now has n't it ? |
| 22 | He does , he 's gone a bit quieter now , it 's this , you 've probably surprised him , he did n't expect you to be here |