Example sentences of "worn [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The distinct lozenges of mud have gone , worn down by the weather , but it is possible to see their outlines in the dissolving walls . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In the autumn , my grandfather died , worn out by the struggle for survival . |
| 9 | At night , no question of sleep for the men worn out by the day 's shelling ( it was not unknown for men in the line to go without sleep for eleven days ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They are worn out by the desire of politicians to fight among themselves , manipulating the archaic rules of Westminster and creating red herrings as part of the game that aims to divorce the people from having a say . |
| 12 | Soon she fell fast asleep , worn out by the news Bob Newman had given her , by the earlier experience of the horrible death of Ed Riverton , by having to visit the mortuary to identify him , by the rush to the airport . |