Example sentences of "[was/were] wearing [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a curious , heavy growth of fur on the crown of his head , which gave him an odd appearance , as though he were wearing a kind of cap . |
| 2 | Franca , with her almost black hair and her almost black dress , felt occluded , invisible , as if she were wearing a shadoor . |
| 3 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 4 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 5 | And you were wearing a ski-jacket , puffy navy thing . |
| 6 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 7 | I turned to face two men , apparently soldiers , for both were wearing the camouflage combat jackets of the army 's working dress , and black berets . |
| 8 | Yes ; and that 's what it was ; a badge of manhood ; because you sensed that before you went into the mine , because you were wearing the moleskin trousers . |
| 9 | She was wearing no make-up ; she could have been a girl fresh from the country . |
| 10 | The girl was undeniably beautiful , and clearly knew it for she was wearing no petticoat and a diaphanous dress of pale gold that did little to hide her body . |
| 11 | Incidentally , the dog at Pembrey was wearing a harness , according to my friend . |
| 12 | She was wearing a plaid dressing-gown that her Dad had left behind : it smelled like an old dog and was as scratchy and heavy as wearing a carpet . |
| 13 | The American was wearing a lapel , badge , big enough for his own name and some other word . |
| 14 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 15 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 16 | TWO DAYS after Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool , Mick Jagger was wearing a dress , reciting Shelley ( Percy not Pete ) and releasing thousands of white butterflies to 300,000 assembled in Hyde Park . |
| 17 | Madeleine was wearing a dress Thérèse had n't seen before . |
| 18 | She was wearing a dress that fitted like a snake 's skin , and looked like one , too . |
| 19 | ‘ And you said he was wearing a bathrobe , and she was still in her dress ? ’ |
| 20 | She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar . |
| 21 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 22 | One of the attackers was wearing a sweatshirt with Weetabix written across it . |
| 23 | He was wearing a shirt and trousers at the time ; these were unmarked . |
| 24 | He was wearing a shirt and a pull-over . |
| 25 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy arrived at the SunSoft Developers ' Conference last week all spiffed up in a dinner jacket , wing collar , jeans and sneakers ; SunSoft president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life — McNealy shot back that the ‘ SM ’ stood for ‘ Stop Microsoft . ’ |
| 26 | SunSoft Inc president Ed Zander , a man with a tailor to kill for and the wardrobe to prove it , was quick to notice that McNealy was wearing a shirt with his initials on the cuff for the first time in his life . |
| 27 | Here I was wearing a shirt and an old pair of grey flannel trousers ; they were clean , for I had washed them , but they were certainly not suitable for calling on an ambassador . |
| 28 | ‘ Could it have been done before he was murdered when he was wearing a shirt , say ? ’ |
| 29 | I was wearing a shirt of green silk loose round the wrists and my green linen culottes — I had found they creased less than a skirt when sitting in a coach . |
| 30 | She could just see by the light of the wrought-iron lamps that he was wearing a shirt with frilled sleeves , and that his hair fell about his face . |