Example sentences of "[be] wear [art] [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 Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier .
8 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
9 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
10 He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out .
11 He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket .
12 Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment .
13 She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt .
14 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 .
15 She 's been wearing an inflatable plastic suit that slimmed your body and she 'd ignited it with her cigarette .
16 ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’
17 She glanced at her left hand as if she 'd forgotten the fact , and was instantly ashamed to find herself wishing she had n't been wearing the showy diamond solitaire .
18 Philip Gould of the Shadow Communications Agency has also been spotted at John Smith 's press conferences , which perhaps explains why Smith has still been wearing the red rose .
19 Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 I am wearing a shiny souwester ;
22 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 .
23 She really does n't care which cowboys are wearing the white skullcaps in this particular showdown .
24 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 .
25 I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me .
26 I 'm wearing a red dress .
27 ‘ I 'm wearing a red dress . ’
28 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 .
29 Even as we speak , I 'm wearing the new , soft ‘ Torric ’ lenses .
30 Well I 'm not wearing a swimsuit but I 'm wearing the other things .
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