Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 2 | Apparently her lack of repentance only made me angrier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
| 6 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 7 | Resistance would only make him worse ; would only heighten whatever sort of perverted pleasure he derived from hurting someone so much weaker than himself . |
| 8 | Then Carrie jumped aside as a passing bus threw up some slush from the gutter , and as she brushed her hands down over the bottom of her coat , she said , ‘ You 'd think they did it on purpose , ’ and as he went to assist her she stayed his hands , saying , ‘ It 'll only make it worse . |
| 9 | Do n't scratch — you know it will only make it worse ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you know you 'll only make it worse ? ’ |
| 11 | but , but I mean you can only make it worse by like you say , you 're wasting your own time and money |
| 12 | The markings not only make it harder for a thief to sell your property but will also make it easier for the police to identify the rightful owner whenever stolen goods are recovered . |
| 13 | He added that the movie quality pictures offered by HDTV would not necessarily make it better or more satisfying to the viewer — instead they could well expose the cheap and cheerful sets used for soap operas for instance . |
| 14 | But the next day was doleful : Mr Evans in a bad mood because he had eaten too much and Auntie Lou tiptoeing about for fear of making things worse and so annoying him further . |
| 15 | But her fear only provoked him further and he turned + slapped first Jo , and then her solidly across the face — a thing he had never done before . |
| 16 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 17 | He strove to keep his face from that wall as it inexorably pulled him closer . |
| 18 | Such tests , used in a design similar to that of David employing chelating agents , would perhaps get us nearer to the point where truly causal relations could be studied . |
| 19 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 20 | And you 're trying to amalgamate all the unions together to make it easier for them . |
| 21 | So erm , it it 's important to remember that Freud 's theory explains both of these tendencies and both the tendency for the group to make people better than they might normally be , but also that the tendency for the group perhaps to make them worse and of course either can happen and presumably a lot depends on the , on the leader , the leader or whoever is playing the , the leadership function presumably has erm some responsibility for this . |
| 22 | Its foundations are laid in fostering guilt in people — well , that obviously makes it easier for our Pastors and Masters when we are young . |
| 23 | ‘ So do we accept that she did merely close it later ? |
| 24 | To clarify the responsibilities of agencies and so to make it easier to hold them to account for their performance . |
| 25 | THERE 'S A wise old saying ( actually it 's the title of a Bruce Willis album , but that does n't have quite the same authoritative ring ) that goes ‘ What does n't kill you , only makes you stronger ’ . |
| 26 | When the pain is worse ( < ) for the slightest movement and continued motion only makes it worse still . |
| 27 | If we know how horses communicate , it not only makes it easier for us to understand them and look after them , but it also makes it possible for us to communicate with them more satisfactorily . |
| 28 | As the novel amply shows , those who want ca n't have and — what only makes it harder to bear — those who have do n't want . |
| 29 | One of the strangest things about the two Maus books is the way they subvert the comforting conventions of the adventure strip so that its familiar clear-cut division between heroes and villains , its technical short cuts and moral simplifications somehow make it easier , not more difficult , for the reader to grasp that these things actually happened . |
| 30 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |