Example sentences of "[am/are] 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 | Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | I am wearing a shiny souwester ; |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 12 | I 'm wearing a red dress . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm wearing a red dress . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |