Example sentences of "he wear [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore his best suit , a clean silk shirt and shaved extra close . |
| 2 | He 'd come straight from work , and he wore his best bespoke Burton 's suit , a yellow waistcoat with a watch on a chain ( a present from Mum ) , and a striped tie in pink and blue with a knot as fat as a bar of soap . |
| 3 | He wore his best suit which had been redeemed from the pawnbrokers and was freshly cleaned and pressed . |
| 4 | When , worn down at last , he mentioned a man who lived as far away as Prudhoe , the polite picked up a young fellow known as Billy the Badger , which apparently had nothing to do with his poaching activities , but was given him because he always wore a white muffler , the ends tucked into his trouser tops , and on Sundays , when he wore his best , which was a black coat and trousers , his pointed face above this ensemble roughly depicted the night creature of the woods . |
| 5 | He worked six days a week in his white milking clothes , milking and butter-making , and on the seventh he wore his best suit to take his family proudly to church . |