While spilled wine may not be an everyday occurrence, your carpet is bound to take a few hits from dirty shoes or dropped food.

"And don't tell me that shoe's dirty because I just polished it."

He had come inside with dirty shoes.

Imagine having kids running up and down them with dirty shoes.

A great arched ceiling of close brickwork, carpets too beautiful to put a dirty shoe on.

"Change your wet clothes or I won't bring you anything, and your dirty wet shoes at once!"

"When bare floors can be quite cold, we can't bear to go into someone's house in muddy, dirty or snowy shoes," she said.

He wore a smudged linen smock and dirty little shoes.

Tony looked down at his dirty old shoes.

The carpeting wasn't made for spills and dirty shoes.