Example sentences of "worn [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 2 | He was a young man , probably no more than twenty ; his teeth were worn down to the stumps by rough ground corn , the tops so sliced through they might have been cut with a circular saw and the resulting surface polished with emery paper . |
| 3 | I was terribly embarrassed ; not only was I a convent girl but the skirts were worn down to the ankles and women just did n't show their legs in those days . |
| 4 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 5 | He reckoned he had picked the wrong waves at the Hard Rock at Sunset , and was worn down by the sheer hard labour of surfing so long in such arduous conditions . |
| 6 | At the end of August 1797 Coleridge was in low spirits and unwell , worn down by the ‘ Malignity of the Aristocrats ’ , who had brought the spy to Stowey , by the need to disappoint John Thelwall 's hopes of a Somerset home , and by poverty . |
| 7 | Ira Dilworth was being worn down by the picayune squabbling of party politicians who were attempting , and with some success , to make a French/Canadian political football of the CBC . |
| 8 | The 1992 world champion had been in a subdued mood all weekend and it was clear he was being worn down by the continuing rumours over his future . |
| 9 | We were already worn down by the long night and another was almost unthinkable — our sleeping bags would be a frozen mass of down by evening . |
| 10 | Self , worn down by the struggle , seems eventually to have been convinced that the measurement of divisional performance by budgetary control and other yardsticks was not possible . |
| 11 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 12 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 13 | But even he was being worn down by the uneventful march of days . |
| 14 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 15 | Waterloo , having been worn down in the trench warfare , were left with little option but to run the ball and were still in the match when , from 30 yards range , Buckton fashioned a fine try for the lively Saverimutto . |
| 16 | The maillot arc-en-ciel is the rainbow jersey worn only by the current world champion . |
| 17 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 18 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |
| 19 | Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion . |
| 20 | The ‘ edges ’ are an almost continuous series of jagged scarps or outcrops where the hard carboniferous sandstone juts out from the softer rock which has been worn away by the elements over millions of years . |
| 21 | If the sponge part has worn down ( it should be nice and springy and approximately one centimetre deep all the way along ) , or if the foam has worn away from the metal piece holding it , you need a new one . |
| 22 | The Victorian stoneware ‘ suite ’ from Mr Twyford 's manufactory was decorated with flowers in willow-pattern blue but paint flaked off the walls and the linoleum had worn through to the floorboards . |
| 23 | To be fair , Suunto recommend that it is worn just above the wrist joint and it would be unlikely to move from that position . |
| 24 | Worth £3 each , the ProSport supports , which are worn just below the elbow , have been specially designed by Seton Healthcare specifically for tennis elbow sufferers . |
| 25 | The Nozovent , which is worn just inside the nostrils at night , reduces snoring by making breathing easier . |
| 26 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 27 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 28 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 29 | For most cuts , the work is steadied against the foot plate which can be angled to bring it into contact with the workpiece ; because the teeth of the sawblade tend to become worn close to the foot plate , the plate can be unclamped and moved forwards to bring a fresh section of the blade into use . |
| 30 | Salwar Kamiz is like a national dress of Punjab , worn both by the Muslims of Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs of East Punjab in India . |