Example sentences of "she wore [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When she went shopping to the town she wore a long , voluminous , dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud . |
| 3 | She wore a long black jacket dotted with outsize white buttons over a skirt of broad black and white stripes last night . |
| 4 | She wore a long , pale grey dress , trimmed with pink ostrich feathers round the hem . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sarah had spruced herself up ; she wore a long , royal-blue coat ova a blue dress of some silky material and she had a blue cloche hat pulled down over her straggling grey hair . |
| 9 | She wore a long raincoat which drooped from her thin shoulders and she carried a small overnight bag . |