Example sentences of "have [verb] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he was a bit mad Elsie you know that and I am afraid he has got worse now . |
| 2 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 3 | Fouling of the churchyard by dogs has got worse and the PCC are considering erecting notices asking owners to control their pets . |
| 4 | Ten ways life has got worse under the Tories |
| 5 | Since we moved here the asthma has got worse . |
| 6 | The injury has got worse and if I continue playing it wo n't get any better . ’ |
| 7 | If anything , it has got worse . |
| 8 | Unfortunately his ear problem has continued and if anything has got worse since our return . |
| 9 | Pay for leading art-historians has always been lower in Britain than in the United States , but the brain drain has got worse . |
| 10 | Since the Spirit of Free Enterprise disaster , the conditions on the ferries has got worse . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 14 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 15 | If anything , they 'd got worse . |
| 16 | If the man had struck me I could n't have felt worse . |
| 17 | I would have felt worse had they . |
| 18 | I thought that if I ran and it was a coronary , it should have got worse , but I ‘ ve run round the block and it has n't , so it must be indigestion . ’ |
| 19 | By the next election , the lot of the Tottenham poor will have got worse , and the chance of alleviating it through economic growth will have receded . |
| 20 | Industrial output has stabilised , too , after falling over 60% in 1991–92 , the most precipitous economic collapse in Eastern Europe ( having fallen that far , it could hardly have got worse ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Things could have got worse . |
| 22 | It could not have gone worse for him when , in the 57th minute , he froze . |
| 23 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought it was getting better , ’ he said , ‘ but the last couple of days it seems to have got worse . ’ |
| 25 | He was never very nice when he was alive and he seems to have got worse now that he 's dead . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've heard worse reasons . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They 've looked worse , ’ retorted Isabel drily . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 30 | We 've got worse . ’ |