11.   It also reminds you of a father now gone, a father climbing a ladder when his legs hurt or his back ached or his knees were rubbed raw.

12.   It would be too much to expect that this continuing, direct contact can deflect affairs of state which have been rubbed raw.

13.   Maybe those factors will start to rub Bird raw as well.

14.   Old friendships have been destroyed, livelihoods taken to the brink of ruin, emotions rubbed raw by the clash of too much cash and too little experience.

15.   One wonders if success will eventually rub him raw and leave him as cagey as Tom Cruise, as guarded as Julia Roberts.

16.   The two are rubbed raw by work-home conflicts and torn by suspicion of infidelity.

17.   The wounds, almost healed, are being rubbed raw again.

18.   This is a different Paltrow, one rubbed raw by years of intrusions into her personal life.

19.   To judge by the number of red bumps, rubbed raw from itching, certain members of the tribes and crew failed to take the necessary precautions.

20.   Two years ago her basset hound, Bertie, returned from quarantine with its paws rubbed raw from six months in a tiny concrete enclosure.