Example sentences of "it bad " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't had it worst ! |
| 2 | Is it worse — positive dishonesty ? |
| 3 | Urban motorways have proved no solution to Britain 's chronic traffic congestion — indeed some say they have made it worse . |
| 4 | Getting a Tory to say what he believes — and , to make it worse , what he knows you know he believes — is about as daunting as drawing teeth . |
| 5 | Perhaps if the National Front had been excluded , the racism they stand for would have had to be faced up to , ‘ making it worse ’ for those very genteel people in charge of education . |
| 6 | Marie strokes the back of my head , but it just makes it worse . |
| 7 | It was a Christian colleague in the English Faculty who said , ‘ The problem of pain is quite bad enough without Lewis making it worse . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That made it worse , you see . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 11 | I tried to move away from him but that made it worse . |
| 12 | Indeed , all parties except ours seemed reconciled to this collapse of the public finances , though some had proposals for making it worse . |
| 13 | Euro-American society is already suffering from a bad self-esteem problem , and I expect that an uncritical belief in the moral supremacy of nature will make it worse . |
| 14 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 15 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 16 | To make it worse , I think Paul had gone three shots ahead , at eight-under as he again played the first nine well . |
| 17 | Make a special note of anything that is unexpected such as a sore throat that is better for swallowing solid food — normally one would expect this to make it worse . |
| 18 | When the pain is worse ( < ) for the slightest movement and continued motion only makes it worse still . |
| 19 | Headache better ( > ) cool air and motion until they become warmed up which then makes it worse ( < ) ; worse ( < ) lying down , warm wraps and noise . |
| 20 | Somehow that made it worse , not knowing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 24 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't make it worse , ’ Rab said . |
| 26 | If you have fractured a bone or fallen and damaged your back , do not move at all , you could make it worse . |
| 27 | To make it worse , the Connor bitch was on a fancied runner in the big race . |
| 28 | Then , just to make it worse , I went into the SAS . |
| 29 | That made it worse , somehow . ’ |
| 30 | What makes it worse is that nobody seems to know what happened . ’ |