Example sentences of "wore [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wore eights , ’ Kimberley said . |
| 2 | Tight denims clung to her legs and she wore knee-length leather boots . |
| 3 | He wore corrective goggles which must translate the rubicund gloom of this vestibule into the true spectrum . |
| 4 | The following morning , just before the father left for his beastly second-hand car garage , Matilda slipped into the cloakroom and got hold of the hat he wore each day to work . |
| 5 | In the morning they wore each other 's face |
| 6 | they wore each other out might have been . |
| 7 | They wore flowered waistcoats , flowered shirts , velvet trousers . |
| 8 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 9 | The military officers among them wore full dress uniform of horizon blue while civilians wore frocked coats and chapeau hauts de forme — top hats . |
| 10 | She wore grubby jeans , torn at the knees , and an unironed acrylic sweater which had seen better days . |
| 11 | He often wore open-necked shirts , and he had a very hairy chest . |
| 12 | As the situation required , David would play almost anywhere — he actually wore eight different numbered shirts for us in four seasons in the 1st Division — and rarely , if ever , even in such illustrious company was he outshone . |
| 13 | To tend the rice shoots all wore broad , mollusk-shaped hats and identical trousers and tunics of black cloth that made men and women indistinguishable to the eyes of the Americans in the car . |
| 14 | Mrs Wedderburn had been the piano accompanist , a reed of a woman who wore wire-framed spectacles and reputedly drank like a fish . |
| 15 | ‘ They all wore bleached Levis , Dr Martens , a short scarf tied cravat style , cropped hair . |
| 16 | ‘ So I wore little make-up , because I had to blend in . |
| 17 | In the photographs , Freda wore drooping organza wings , a bent wand , crinkly grey hair and large specs that Edna Everage would later die for . |
| 18 | Kitty wore powder-blue . |
| 19 | In summer we wore candy-striped dresses with Peter Pan collars . |
| 20 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 21 | Only one wore discreet jewellery . |
| 22 | Even in the middle of summer Nibs wore that overcoat . ’ |
| 23 | He wore that mantle well at Rome University until his retirement in 1978 . |
| 24 | On his thigh Jaq wore that warlock 's image in phosphorescent green . |
| 25 | ‘ Only some wore that . |
| 26 | The old men wore that . |
| 27 | My grandfather wore that . |
| 28 | I spent the evening in one of those awful cellar bars where all the women were blonde and laughing , and the men wore that uniform . |
| 29 | And they wore that all day all of them all day ? |
| 30 | I wonder whether he ever wore that ? |