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Example sentences of "made it [adj -er] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And they added onto it and made it bigger since .
2	I think I made it bigger than that !
3	Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ .
4	I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ?
5	‘ That made it worse , you see .
6	Mr Weld , who inherited this confusion from the Dukakis administration , made it worse last year when , during the election campaign , he promised to find another place to dump .
7	I tried to move away from him but that made it worse .
8	It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here .
9	Somehow that made it worse , not knowing .
10	What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop .
11	One night I remember clearly was when we lost an aircraft and crew at Bourn , not over Germany but back on our own air field , which made it worse .
12	That made it worse , somehow . ’
13	What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time .
14	They made it worse ’
15	Just made it worse .
16	They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame .
17	What made it worse was that Prince Charles seemed less concerned about her predicament than that of his friend Camilla Parker-Bowles .
18	" I knew it was the same for you ; that made it worse .
19	Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face .
20	He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches .
21	What made it worse was that his face remained so still , as expressionless as it had been earlier when discussing trivia with the Doctor .
22	I think that made it worse , my dad said you ca n't mix , in this world , you should have white , Indian and black .
23	From a local survey they found that many girls of this age were very frightened in labour , which made it worse , and that they had little idea about coping with a tiny baby .
24	Dave talked right on and over the start of the lyric , and then made it worse by trying to pretend that his mistake was intentional .
25	Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse .
26	What made it worse was his coldness .
27	I could n't look as if I did n't care , which made it worse .
28	What made it worse was that the infection was traced to some undercooked meat she 'd eaten in England .
29	But Hector , with his booming laugh , was so large and overpowering that he made it worse .
30	Cedric made it worse , because at each rasping expulsion he would look round enquiringly at his back end then gambol about the room as though the fugitive zephyr was clearly visible to him and he was determined to corner it .