Example sentences of "be wearing a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm wearing a shirt ! |
| 32 | They do n't know I 'm wearing a wig |
| 33 | I 'm wearing a denim waistcoat , cheesecloth shirt and baggy denim jeans , and I 'm smiling fit to burst , as I always seem to be in photographs . |
| 34 | Erm , so right now I 'm wearing a tweed jacket . |
| 35 | Ant : Why I 'm wearing a bin-liner ? |
| 36 | ‘ If I 'm wearing a silk teddy or stockings and suspenders , I whisper a description in Stewart 's ear as he leaves for work . |
| 37 | ‘ I wo n't tell anyone , ’ said Gabriel , ‘ but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this . ’ |
| 38 | Next thing you 'll be wearing a cow bell or painting daisies on yourself . |
| 39 | When you so eagerly accepted your first-ever part did you think Mowgli would be wearing a kaftan ? |
| 40 | The one with the magazine , who appeared to be wearing a bathrobe over nothing , looked at her tray and said pleasantly , ‘ Who 's all that for ? ’ |
| 41 | She did n't seem to be wearing a brassiere under her purple blouse . |
| 42 | Britain , the alleged home of ‘ not one of us ’ , seemed to be wearing a halo to Jane at that moment . |
| 43 | When Bobby Moore — still trim , still neat , the Mod That Time Forgot — stepped forward to unveil the portrait , Bobby Charlton was shown to be wearing a halo — a luminous skidmark , or slather in the paint , lighting the night sky above his head . |
| 44 | It entails a little body contact so do not choose someone who is too uptight and of course they must be wearing a jacket . |
| 45 | To assist identification , I 'll be wearing a cobalt shell-suit and Nikes . |
| 46 | She might as well be wearing a notice . |
| 47 | I 'll be wearing a carnation . |
| 48 | It was remarkably clean and well-maintained , and all the lights worked but Clive felt as if he ought to be wearing a pith helmet , and carrying a hunting rifle that could bring down a charging rhino at fifty paces . |
| 49 | I dare say Ianthe Broome will be there and she 'll probably be wearing a wool dress . ’ |
| 50 | I could well imagine her lecturing : she would be wearing a mortar-board and gown perhaps , her head on one side as she usually held it when talking ; and her eyes would be twinkling , as she held forth in that clear , incisive , ‘ educated ’ voice of hers . |
| 51 | I will be wearing a Knee length leather coat ( bloody cold ) with a hood and my Leeds away shirt on underneath ( Yellow and Blue vertical stripes for those that do n't know ; - ) ) . |
| 52 | You really ought to be wearing a ring , Lucinda . |
| 53 | And you 'll be wearing a swimming hat . |
| 54 | He was turning to speak to the other person , who appeared to be wearing an evening gown ; as her hand moved , there was a glint of dress jewellery . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Franca , with her almost black hair and her almost black dress , felt occluded , invisible , as if she were wearing a shadoor . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | And you were wearing a ski-jacket , puffy navy thing . |
| 60 | 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 . |