Example sentences of "[be] wear a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit . |
| 2 | Sightings in Kent suggest Merkin may now be wearing a new red collar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them . |
| 6 | I 'll be wearing a green tweed overcoat and a brown felt hat . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And Mrs Healy will have thrown away her corsets and be wearing a short skirt . ’ |
| 8 | If you can imagine being on a steep , snow-covered slope , below which there is a 1000 m ( 3,500 ft ) sheer drop , would you prefer to be wearing a shiny nylon cagoule or a rough old woollen jumper ? |
| 9 | From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono . |
| 10 | If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so . |
| 11 | Well I 'll be wearing a distressed leather jacket , black jeans , a new short haircut which makes me look really hard and a large stomach . |
| 12 | This male shape or essence seemed to be wearing a white coat ( a medic 's stark white smock ) . |
| 13 | Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt . |
| 14 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |