Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a worse [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
2 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
3 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
4 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
5 | No force had taken a worse drubbing in the first mad onrush of Plan XVII than the Second Army that had then been under his command ; yet , in the moment of defeat , he had made an astonishing turnabout . |