Example sentences of "[be] wear a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Some jokes are so awful that you should only ever tell them while you 're wearing a decent pair of trainers . |
2 | Worn with jeans the all-in-one looks as though you 're wearing a regular vest . |
3 | The same applies to the tops of your legs , especially if you 're wearing a high-cut swimsuit . |
4 | When you 're wearing a short skirt , you feel young , carefree and hedonistic . |
5 | Here , they 're wearing a matching floral set that Rachel made for them . |
6 | You 're wearing an insubordinate expression . |
7 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
8 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
9 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
10 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
11 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
12 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
13 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
14 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
15 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
16 | She 's been wearing an inflatable plastic suit that slimmed your body and she 'd ignited it with her cigarette . |
17 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
18 | Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one . |
19 | ‘ If I am wearing a pure white carnation I am best avoided on that day because it means I am in a bad mood , ’ he said , adding that he always warns new acquaintances of this fact but has as yet not lived up to the threat . |
20 | I am wearing a shiny souwester ; |
21 | And tho' I know the smooth curve of your naked shoulders , right now , and now it 's right , you are wearing a moth-mauve shirt and a chic built-up soap-opera heroine jacket . |
22 | I 'm wearing a black figure-hugging knee-length frock , which has been hand-embroidered all over with dangling jet beads ; sharp , dangling jet beads that make standing up imperative . |
23 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
24 | I 'm wearing a red dress . |
25 | ‘ I 'm wearing a red dress . ’ |
26 | Though my head is uncovered , I 'm wearing a huge black rubber raincoat — my favourite — and slinging my holdall over my shoulder , tuck my cold blue hands into the wide warm sleeves and strike out towards home . |
27 | He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit . |
28 | Sightings in Kent suggest Merkin may now be wearing a new red collar . |
29 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
30 | ‘ If you went to a summer party in 1970 , ’ said Joanne Brogden , Professor of Fashion at the Royal College of Art , ‘ you could guarantee that most women would be wearing a long ‘ Laura Ashley ’ skirt or dress . |