Example sentences of "be 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 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 7 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 8 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
| 9 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 10 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
| 11 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 12 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jackie is wearing a red tee-shirt and I am wearing a blue one . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | I am wearing a shiny souwester ; |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 20 | I 'm wearing a red dress . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm wearing a red dress . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit . |
| 24 | Sightings in Kent suggest Merkin may now be wearing a new red collar . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I 'll be wearing a green tweed overcoat and a brown felt hat . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And Mrs Healy will have thrown away her corsets and be wearing a short skirt . ’ |
| 30 | 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 ? |