Example sentences of "have be wear a " in BNC.
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1 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
2 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
3 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
4 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
5 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
6 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
7 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
8 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
9 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
10 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
11 | But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style . |
12 | He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket . |
13 | ‘ The evidence extends only as far as the lower scapula , does it not ’ He could have been wearing an off-the-shoulder toga . ’ |
14 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
15 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
16 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
17 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
18 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
19 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
20 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
21 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
22 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
23 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
26 | She 's been wearing an inflatable plastic suit that slimmed your body and she 'd ignited it with her cigarette . |