Example sentences of "she wore [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wore a fawn mackintosh and a scarf patterned with neat flowers . |
| 2 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 3 | She wore a belted Japanese kimono that emphasised her cottage-loaf figure and had a warm , rumpled , half-awake look that made Maxim just want to curl up beside her and sleep for a week . |
| 4 | She wore a shabby , tweed skirt and a turtleneck sweater which had shrunk slightly , making her look even smaller than usual . |
| 5 | Sarah answered the door ; she wore a shabby blue woollen dress , her grey hair straggled and she looked as though she could do with a wash . |
| 6 | She wore a flowered smock , and her spectacles hung round her neck on a cord . |
| 7 | She wore a tailored two-piece grey suit and delicate shoes , and there was a scarf over her hair that came from Dior , minimum , and she carried the red roses . |
| 8 | She wore a naval greatcoat with brass buttons and some sort of goggles on her head . |
| 9 | She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up . |
| 10 | She wore a blue dress . " |
| 11 | Her hair was loose today and she wore a blue and white striped cotton dress with her mother 's birthday gift cardigan . |
| 12 | Beneath her mink she wore a blue dress which made her look like an overgrown Girl Guide . |
| 13 | For her wedding to Captain Mark Phillips in 1973 , she wore a high-necked , princess-line bridal gown in ivory silk by Maureen Baker of the design house Susan Small . |
| 14 | She wore a high-necked white nightdress . |
| 15 | She wore a dirty apron in dark , printed cotton , which went round her back and fastened with thin tapes , pulled awry over her black skirt and sweater , and she appeared flustered . |
| 16 | She wore a gold-fringed dress of red murrey with a white silk head-veil ; around her throat was a golden necklace of bejewelled pomegranates . |
| 17 | She wore a fetching , knee-length black dress and a kind of Spanish headdress that made her look a little like a sherry advertisement . |
| 18 | She wore a swirling dress with something bright wrapped round the waist , and she carried a laundry basket . |
| 19 | She wore a simple summer dress of Western origin . |
| 20 | Slender and demure , she wore a simple ao dai of brown silk , and the serene beauty of her delicate golden face belied her years . |
| 21 | In the end she wore a simple white flared skirt and a broderie anglaise blouse , and left her fair hair loose on her shoulders . |
| 22 | On her first royal engagement with Prince Charles — at Goldsmiths Hall — she wore a deep plunge black Emanuel dress . |
| 23 | She wore a russet gown , the white lace beautifully worked , her hair flowed down her shoulders and her back like a cascade , glistening softly in the flickering light , and her expression was resolved in a contentment , more , a sheer happiness that affected all of them . |
| 24 | Indoors she wore a long black pinafore-like garment , sleeveless and reaching almost to the ground , which she had made from a cotton material used later during the war for black-out curtains and called , I think , sateen . |
| 25 | When she went shopping to the town she wore a long , voluminous , dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud . |
| 26 | She wore a long black jacket dotted with outsize white buttons over a skirt of broad black and white stripes last night . |
| 27 | She wore a long , pale grey dress , trimmed with pink ostrich feathers round the hem . |
| 28 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 29 | Not yet thirty , she wore a long dark skirt and a pale scrap of cheap cloth above the waist that left her arms and shoulders bare . |
| 30 | She wore a long full-skirted dress of white organdie and a headdress of artificial lilies of the valley , and carried white roses and carnations . |