Example sentences of "[verb] [art] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more celebrated I became the worse I painted and the more false I felt . |
| 2 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 3 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 4 | If she made no response , he might well climb over the wall all the same , as he had on the previous night ; on the other hand if she went to him and they were caught his offence would be deemed the worse , for being found on Roscarrock property was one thing , but being caught dallying with a servant girl was another . |
| 5 | For this he was profoundly grateful and it stopped the worse of the panics . |
| 6 | ‘ I can accept not being in the team but I can not accept that , because of the circumstances , I 'm becoming a worse footballer every week . |
| 7 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
| 8 | In the late romanticism of Stevenson 's tale of corruption in the South Seas , the islanders are not seen as virtuous noble savages , but certainly appear no worse than the white men who take advantage of them . |
| 9 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
| 10 | This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause . |
| 11 | If General Motors has a worse credit rating than Toyota , its borrowing costs ought to be higher . |
| 12 | Only construction has a worse record , where the risk is one in 252 . |
| 13 | And the more you done the worse it was I always found that . |
| 14 | And in the morning , yeah , you have to wake up earlier they 'd bring the hosepipe and they 'd wake you up with cold water and you 'd have to have a cold shower and everything And sometimes they , they put , they 'd used I got , I got done the worse and , like , I just woke up cos I felt cold . |
| 15 | Here the great house is not crumbling , as in Palladian , but has suffered the worse humiliation of being perverted into a preparatory school for boys : it is divided by baize doors and encircled by cinder paths . |
| 16 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 17 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 18 | For example , leaving rates of women employees may show a worse picture than for male employees . |
| 19 | Students held secret meetings and there were rumours of plots to assassinate Mussolini , but these always failed , and It was said that those involved were given long prison sentences or suffered a worse fate . |
| 20 | Oxford United are still stuck at the bottom of the first division … after last night 's draw against Barnsley … while Hereford suffered a worse fate … they lost at Gillingham … |
| 21 | After the disastrous presidency of George Bush , Arfur Daley himself could n't do a worse job . |
| 22 | I had to rack my brains to remember a worse one . |
| 23 | Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year . |
| 25 | By the standards of some prisons in economically developed countries , Matagalpa prison was spartan and comfortless , but conditions seemed no worse than those faced by most of the rural population in Nicaragua . |
| 26 | Sleeping rough in the open air that summer seemed no worse than sleeping rough inside . |
| 27 | But as soon as their friendship was struck the memory faded and the bad time seemed no worse than some null interlude between two boon companions . |
| 28 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 29 | One of Stirling 's problems was that he was not content to let others do the raiding from time to time , though he had proved his own courage and nobody would have thought the worse of him had he decided to concentrate on sorting out the many administrative problems that beset L Detachment . |
| 30 | He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it . |