Example sentences of "worn [adv prt] [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 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 . |
| 17 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A path had been worn up to the door . |
| 21 | a name not to be worn out with the years . |
| 22 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 23 | ‘ My mother especially is becoming worn out with the constant caring and the sleepless nights . ’ |
| 24 | Yet , property taxes on Pocahontas-Kentucky 's surface land hardly yield enough to buy a bus for the county school system , and the $76 the county receives as payment on the mineral rights would not buy the bus a new tyre to replace the one worn out on the county 's unpaved and rough coal-hauling roads . ’ |
| 25 | Some investment occurs , though , simply to replace capital which has worn out during the year — such ‘ wearing out ’ of capital is called ‘ depreciation ’ or ‘ capital consumption ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ If I concentrate 20,000 men , ’ wrote Bessières , worn out in the north by 1811 , ‘ all my communications are lost and the insurgents make great progress . |
| 27 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 28 | Mr Shevardnadze , worn out by the struggle for reform , used his resignation speech to the Congress to give warning that a new dictatorship was in preparation . |
| 29 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 30 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |