Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] worse " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This , after all , was no ordinary case of murder and they could scarcely have picked a worse example to further their cause .
3 And the more you done the worse it was I always found that .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ .
8 ‘ I 've not seen a worse sea this year .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 He could have kept Maggie to warm his bed and no one would have thought the worse of him for it .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making .
15 ‘ Without any treatment the tumour seems to have got no worse .
16 Until the Ottoman empire began to decline in the late eighteenth century , Christian subjects in the Balkans were probably treated no worse than were the peasants of central Europe by their Christian feudal overlords .
17 As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ .
18 The density of tree crowns and the proportion of dead shoots both indicated a worse state of health , except for beech , which showed small signs of improvement .
19 Sheila could not have desired a worse profession .
20 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 .
21 He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison .
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