Example sentences of "worn [adv prt] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sick of the sound of keys and worn down by the slicing pain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But even he was being worn down by the uneventful march of days . |
| 5 | A carer , worn out by the unending demands of her task , shakes her mother when she spits out her tablets . |
| 6 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |