Example sentences of "dressed in a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men stood there , one tall and masked , the other a small , weasel-eyed individual dressed in a dirty leather jerkin , hose and boots which had seen better days . |
| 2 | She was smartly dressed in a fawn trouser suit and seemed in high spirits . |
| 3 | The woman was in her mid-thirties , dressed in a black trouser suit and white sweater . |
| 4 | He was dressed in a black leather windcheater , black cords , and carried an airline bag . |
| 5 | Tatum , dressed in a black velvet coat and patterned trousers , lowered her head and brushed past photographers as she went back inside . |
| 6 | Lucy Downes was in , and soon stood at the door : an attractive , slim , fair-haired woman in her early thirties , dressed in a summerish cotton suit of pale green , with a light-beige mackintosh over her left arm . |
| 7 | She was in her early thirties , dressed in a worn leather jacket and faded jeans . |
| 8 | He was dressed in a Victorian morning suit , high starched collar , watered-silk cravat . |
| 9 | The tall man who spoke to her through the barely opened driver 's window was casually dressed in a well-cut tweed sports jacket and green drill trousers . |
| 10 | The girl lingered at a secondhand clothes shop and was looking at grubby petticoats displayed on iron rods by the doorway , when a young man dressed in a shabby tail coat and check trousers came along and paused beside her . |
| 11 | She claimed Union President Christopher Hall , who was dressed in a multi-coloured clown suit , was ‘ completely plastered and could n't string a sentence together ’ . |
| 12 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 13 | She would be dressed in a new cotton serwal with its inches of gold and silver thread at the ankle . |
| 14 | A month later Paula , smartly dressed in a new tweed suit with the obligatory matching bag and shoes , and lugging both her modelling case and a brand new cream leather suitcase , took the train to London to begin her new career . |
| 15 | In the midst of this unrelenting wave of depression , I found myself , dressed in a borrowed dinner jacket , on the M11 headed for Cambridge , where I was about to make my first ( and last ) appearance as an after-dinner speaker . |
| 16 | At that moment the door to the next room , which had been left a little ajar , opened and a slim , petite woman came in , elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes . |
| 17 | A short while later she glanced in the mirror , seeing a small , slender figure dressed in a mid-calf-length denim skirt , cuban-heeled cowboy-boots and white fringed shirt , her riotous auburn curls left tumbling free over her shoulders . |
| 18 | He was dressed in a long flannel shirt edged with lace , with flounces all down the middle , and five or six more on either side of the chest , all sewn with wool , in accordance with an Act of Parliament which forbids the use of linen or cotton for this purpose . |
| 19 | He was smartly dressed in a two piece suit . |
| 20 | Andy Ward and his bridge , Alison Holloway ( above ) , dressed in a fur-trimmed David Fielden gown for the church blessing ( suitable for Siberia , too . ) |
| 21 | In case their faith was wavering , Mr Li , misleadingly dressed in a western business suit instead of the again-fashionable Mao garb , added a reminder of the inevitability of class struggle : ‘ While fostering socialist democracy and the socialist legal system , we must intensify dictatorship by the socialist state apparatus . ’ |
| 22 | The thin man , who was dressed in a white lab coat , examined her eyes with the aid of a magnifying glass and a small torch . |
| 23 | I met Paul Fabian a few days later — a small , bird-like man , quite bald , dressed in a white safari suit and a Panama , and in a perpetual state of fuss about ‘ sending telegrams to London ’ . |
| 24 | Dad , Jack and Charlie just wore a black armband each with their Sunday suits , and I was dressed in a white lace dress with a wide black sash of silk ribbon . |
| 25 | She was dressed in a white silk slip belonging to Faye and sitting on the dark wooden floor of the veranda , leaning her arms on a white wicker chair . |
| 26 | The collection at Woodstock has goodness knows how many silk wedding dresses , but it would be wrong to assume that every Victorian woman went round dressed in a white silk wedding dress , because they did n't . |
| 27 | On reaching the last train they found a colleague talking to a middle-aged man dressed in a light-coloured rain coat and flat cap who was assumed to have been overcarried on the last train after going out of service at Capland Road Station . |
| 28 | EMMA is about the same age , dressed in a longish navy skirt and low-heeled courts . |
| 29 | Each was dressed in a miniature guerrilla uniform and each carried a gun . |
| 30 | He looked gorgeous , dressed in a pink silk gown with a gold-tasselled cord round his waist . |