Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd suffered worse treatment from punters in the past . |
| 2 | If anything , they 'd got worse . |
| 3 | I stuck to party policy , of course , but the problem only seemed to get worse . |
| 4 | Mr Edgar caught a bad cold , which seemed to get worse and worse . |
| 5 | The fraction of the file in overflow did not markedly affect performance until it reached 30 per cent of the total file ; the only exception was the ICL fourteen-record bucket file , which began to perform worse as soon as additions were made . |
| 6 | In London her colour had gradually faded away until only unhealthy red spots stained her cheeks and the cough she developed got worse . |
| 7 | We began to get worse and worse news from the Continent about Concentration Camps , for Jews and others , that were almost unbelievably brutal . |
| 8 | ‘ I came in with a bad knee and it just started getting worse , ’ the 13th-seeded Lendl said . |
| 9 | Then it started to get worse , dangerous : the leaving the front door wide open , setting the electric kettle down on the gas hob kind of dangerous . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 12 | She added that the situation had got worse ‘ almost overnight ’ . |
| 13 | In 1972 Tom 's temper had got worse and worse and I felt like packing it in , as we finished seventh at Muirfield , the year Tony Jacklin should have won and Lee Trevino did . |
| 14 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 15 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 16 | To his despair things had got worse . |
| 17 | Things had got worse since then . |
| 18 | Yet for a time she had even got better , but then suddenly today — ‘ or yesterday now ’ he thought , looking at the luminous dials of the old clock he kept by his bed — she had got worse again . |
| 19 | The impression that things had got worse was inescapable . |
| 20 | Eileen said the traffic along Roundhill Road had got worse since she started as a lollipop lady ten years ago , adding : ‘ I do n't know what will happen when the cattle market comes here . ’ |
| 21 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 22 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 23 | The hard bench under her was n't conducive to restful slumber either , although she had known worse beds . |
| 24 | But the problem continued to get worse and a series of surveys in the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s established the main characteristics of these single , homeless people . |
| 25 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |
| 26 | Lol Walters , a worker at the centre , which is funded by Shelter , said homeless ness was a year-round problem which tended to become worse in winter . |