Example sentences of "[pron] wore [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was bridesmaid and I wore a blue and white striped dress . |
| 2 | I wore a borrowed dress , and carried a huge , ungainly bouquet of chrysanthemums ( in wartime there were no roses in December ) . |
| 3 | The next day was the big event and I wore a nice new dress in blue and fawn which I bought from Shepherd 's in Barnard Castle . |
| 4 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 5 | I wore a sweet pink dress with dark pink roses patterning it . |
| 6 | I wore a short wig in the recent production of Noel Coward 's Private Lives . |
| 7 | I wore a red pencil moustache , sequins , inflatable flowers , just to distract the public so I could sell memberships . |
| 8 | I wore a beautiful ring , a love token made of sheer gold . |
| 9 | I wore a wonderful panama outside , but I did n't wear anything in hospital . |
| 10 | As for me , I wore a white countryman 's smock that Mum had made , had a red handkerchief tied around my neck and a floppy grey felt hat with wide brim was stuck on my head . |
| 11 | I wore a polyester-type wig like a naff perm and I looked quite hideous . ’ |
| 12 | I wore the shantung tea-gown and a gold circlet round my forehead to make it clear that I 'm the Queen . |
| 13 | The artist calmly took a small mechanical device and positioned it against the side of her finger which wore a glittering pair of rings in emerald and diamond . |
| 14 | She wore a fawn mackintosh and a scarf patterned with neat flowers . |
| 15 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 16 | She wore a belted Japanese kimono that emphasised her cottage-loaf figure and had a warm , rumpled , half-awake look that made Maxim just want to curl up beside her and sleep for a week . |
| 17 | She wore a shabby , tweed skirt and a turtleneck sweater which had shrunk slightly , making her look even smaller than usual . |
| 18 | Sarah answered the door ; she wore a shabby blue woollen dress , her grey hair straggled and she looked as though she could do with a wash . |
| 19 | She wore a flowered smock , and her spectacles hung round her neck on a cord . |
| 20 | She wore a tailored two-piece grey suit and delicate shoes , and there was a scarf over her hair that came from Dior , minimum , and she carried the red roses . |
| 21 | She wore a naval greatcoat with brass buttons and some sort of goggles on her head . |
| 22 | She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up . |
| 23 | She wore a blue dress . " |
| 24 | Her hair was loose today and she wore a blue and white striped cotton dress with her mother 's birthday gift cardigan . |
| 25 | Beneath her mink she wore a blue dress which made her look like an overgrown Girl Guide . |
| 26 | For her wedding to Captain Mark Phillips in 1973 , she wore a high-necked , princess-line bridal gown in ivory silk by Maureen Baker of the design house Susan Small . |
| 27 | She wore a high-necked white nightdress . |
| 28 | She wore a dirty apron in dark , printed cotton , which went round her back and fastened with thin tapes , pulled awry over her black skirt and sweater , and she appeared flustered . |
| 29 | She wore a gold-fringed dress of red murrey with a white silk head-veil ; around her throat was a golden necklace of bejewelled pomegranates . |
| 30 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |