Example sentences of "[be] wearing a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a skirt on , or if you 're wearing a dressing gown |
| 2 | I want to ask why you thi why you feel better with people knowing you 're wearing a wig |
| 3 | ‘ I say , old man , do you realize you 're wearing a Guards Brigade tie ? ’ |
| 4 | If you 're wearing a bra we just undo your bra , okay ? |
| 5 | Showing a large dog when you 're wearing an evening dress is not always easy . |
| 6 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 7 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 8 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 9 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 10 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 11 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 12 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
| 13 | The dog that had jumped over the fence into Jubilee Wood had n't been wearing a collar . |
| 14 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
| 15 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 16 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 17 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 18 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 19 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 20 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 21 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 22 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 23 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 24 | That may not go down so well in the middle of Leicester Square if you are wearing a suit . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't want people to be abused or intimidated but just to be made aware of the fact that if they are wearing a fur coat the public have got a right to say something . ’ |
| 26 | You are wearing a cloak such as was worn every day by the likes of your mama , your grandmama and yourself . |
| 27 | I 'm wearing a pair of griff actually . |
| 28 | you believe that I 'm wearing a hairpiece so you do n't know and I I speak for most |
| 29 | In her white hospital gown — I 'm wearing a gown . |
| 30 | ‘ : - ) I 'm wearing a Walkman . |