Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] worse " in BNC.
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| 1 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 2 | And it got worse when I realised I did n't know where they were going for their lune de miel . |
| 3 | And it got worse as the day wore on , especially since it began to rain . |
| 4 | It happened like this : last Saturday , after the farewell party at Nanking University , I came back to the hotel , and packed my things ready to leave for Shanghai , then about 10.30 I started to feel sick , and it got worse and worse and went on and on until I had to wake up Comrade Wu at about 3.30 and ask her to get a doctor . |
| 5 | And you 're sat there and you 're like kicking it away and it goes worse . |
| 6 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 7 | And it gets worse . |
| 8 | ‘ She did , but it got worse for her . |
| 9 | This would at best have been a major irritant for an embattled leader of the opposition But it became worse than that . |
| 10 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 11 | But it gets worse : the Home Office has now decided that those Departments must find the money to build the places but that local authorities must find the running costs . |