Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] bad " 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 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 3 | The great danger of the proposals , I said , was not that they would fail to improve our schools , but that they would make them worse . |
| 4 | But the irony of the current position is that the Conservatives have all the same problems — but with a policy mix that will make them worse ! |
| 5 | But reformers said jailing kids would make them worse . |
| 6 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 7 | Only , again , why does that make me worse than Nicky ? |
| 8 | ‘ You mean nothing worse could happen ? ’ asked Betty doubtfully . |
| 9 | I mean , I felt that , it made me worse as well , by going to them and I decided that I would never go back to them again , you know . |
| 10 | Prison just made me worse ; it did nowt else . |
| 11 | I had that at Christmas which made me bad all over Christmas right ? |
| 12 | ‘ Only one , ’ said Ken , ‘ and that was n't because I forgot it : it was because they 'd given me bad directions . ’ |
| 13 | For example , strong tea , coffee , alcohol , fruit juice or highly spiced dishes can bring on Cystitis attacks or make them worse . |
| 14 | Make them worse ! |
| 15 | They tend to say we must overthrow the existing social order and establish a new just social order , when human beings will be liberated from the corrupting erm , alienating er forces , that er , make them bad , and everything will be , everything will be okay . |
| 16 | That you do n't think me bad . ’ |
| 17 | I just got my bad |
| 18 | Hearing you on the telephone just seemed to confirm my worst fears , and I did n't stop to reason things through . |
| 19 | With the stock market dropping to less than half its end-of-1989 peak , brokerages report their worst business results in 30 years . |
| 20 | Burdened by the fear that some ‘ performance ’ , of which they feel incapable , is expected , and therefore that their ‘ manliness ’ is threatened , they may get so miserable and anxious that they realise their worst fears , by becoming unable to have an erection and then hiding behind the idea that ‘ I 'm an old man now , so what can I expect ? ’ |
| 21 | Within several days she had forgotten her bad habit and her anxiety , and ceased to require an inducement to let someone climb on her back . |
| 22 | — And she wo n't believe it if I say owt bad about him . |
| 23 | Yeah , yes it 's only wants one bad one among the crowd , like a ba a b bad apple , go through the lot . |
| 24 | If you had a cold , aconite would stop it from developing , or keep a bad cold from becoming something worse . |
| 25 | He 's played many good rounds and usually has one bad one per tournament . |
| 26 | Benn added : ‘ I really want him bad . |
| 27 | I want him bad … ’ |
| 28 | He 's took it bad , he 's a fine weather but it seems like |
| 29 | Yeah I know I like Jenny I mean , but I never really say anything bad about Jenny . |
| 30 | They want us bad . |