Example sentences of "wearing the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marching along the street , with boots thudding and fingers slapping ( a peculiarly skinhead mannerism ) , all wearing the same clothes and the same haircut , the skinheads presented an image of power . |
| 2 | ‘ She was still wearing the same clothes which she disappeared in . |
| 3 | We have established the assassin had been tramping round in the snow , yet Lady Beatrice and Rachel are wearing the same clothes as they were this morning and , as far as I know , never left the house . ’ |
| 4 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 5 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 6 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 7 | Er sometimes I always laugh I say it 's funny when erm it 's about twenty degrees outside they 're still wearing the same dress and when it 's minus fifteen or ten they 're still wearing the same dress . |
| 8 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 9 | So , for example , an Orc rider wearing a chainmail shirt and carrying a shield has an armour save of 3+ compared to 4+ for a man wearing the same armour and riding a horse , and 5+ for the same Orc fighting on foot . |
| 10 | Outside the front door of the school stood a line of teachers wearing the same robes as the Headmaster . |
| 11 | Today police released a photograph of Carol wearing the same jacket she had on the night she dissapeared . |
| 12 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 13 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
| 14 | wearing the same disguise , with every |
| 15 | They 're all wearing the same sort of clothes — black , with these black hats — even the girls . |
| 16 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 17 | The Special Boat Service was never a large unit , and , wearing the same insignia as the Special Air Service of similar vintage and outlook , was often confused with them . |