Example sentences of "had be wearing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 4 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 5 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 6 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 7 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 8 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |