Example sentences of "wearing a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been . |
| 2 | He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit . |
| 3 | Each was unveiled , unrobed , wearing a long dress , her hair free . |
| 4 | Iris came aboard with him , wearing a long dress and in full warpaint . |
| 5 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 6 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 7 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 8 | The girl — it seemed sarcastic to call her the bride — was wearing a cheap costume in lilac that looked stiff and new . |
| 9 | She was wearing a cheap polyester dress in hideous shades of brown and pink , and her hair looked wispy and unkempt . |
| 10 | Beside this a man in blue overalls , wearing a cheap aluminium facemask , is cutting off the strip he has just laid between the joists . |
| 11 | It seemed no time at all until the last model , wearing a mauve duchesse evening dress called ‘ Tour d'Eiffel ’ , had swished back through the gold curtain and Paul de Levantiére was standing to acknowledge the enthusiastic applause . |
| 12 | A Late Classic tomb , placed prominently on the main axis of a truncated pyramid west of the West Plaza of the majestic site of Tikal in Yucatan , yielded a splendid chest ornament depicting a head , identified as that of the sun-god Kinich Ahan , wearing a grotesque head-dress , ear-plugs and a necklace resembling those commonly made of jadeite . |
| 13 | The osiers were almost hidden by plaited straw and by interlacing branches of yew and laurel ; coloured streamers attached to the rim hung limply on the still air and within the Wheel , in a bower of straw and foliage , was a life-size figure wearing a grotesque mask and enveloped in a black cloak . |
| 14 | Culley had n't pictured Mathers in the role — throwing a football to some kid with braces on his teeth , wearing a Snoopy apron at the barbecue , sleeping easily alongside the same woman each night . |
| 15 | At last there was a knock on the door and a young man entered wearing a battered leather jacket and torn breeches . |
| 16 | On this occasion , as on many others , Portia Forbes was wearing a tailored navy pin-stripe suit , an open-necked white shirt and a red scarf at her neck . |
| 17 | Hayling , now describing himself in Trotskyite jargon as a ‘ commercial rightist ’ , and wearing a three-piece suit to prove it , seemed determined to become a City gent . |
| 18 | When he came down he was wearing a professional air and said the symptoms were those of food poisoning . |
| 19 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 20 | He was unshaven and wearing a shabby towelling bathrobe with threads hanging off it . |
| 21 | Natascia Rosignoli , 23 , was relegated to a desk job near Perugia , Italy , for causing traffic chaos while wearing a too-tight skirt and revealing low-cut jacket . |
| 22 | The din became even louder as we turned into Trinity where a gang of felons was being driven about London in a cart wearing a scrawled notice around their neck listing their offence . |
| 23 | Wearing a woollen pixie hat above his bright red beard , he loudly and uninterruptedly belched and farted his way up and down Moel Hebog with a cheery smile and complete disregard for the appalled looks which followed his thundering progress . |
| 24 | She was wearing a woollen cardigan , woollen |
| 25 | The driver , wearing a flourescent jacket with the word police , demanded a £20 on the spot fine . |
| 26 | She was a blonde in a black dress , wearing a tiny hat with a visor of veil . |
| 27 | He feels so close to the nature of the place that he is photographed on the jacket of his book wearing a curious hat and holding the tusk of a wild pig . |
| 28 | She was wearing a burgundy-coloured dress of fine corduroy and reminded me herself of foreign wine . |
| 29 | He was wearing a burgundy-coloured bomber jacket and jeans and was thought to me in his mid to late teens . |
| 30 | Suddenly a young man wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet rushed up behind me and stuck a revolver in the security guard 's face . |