Example sentences of "wore a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore a blazer , not unlike the one Lord Woodleigh wore except that instead of discreet brass buttons it was decorated by no fewer than five enormous , tinselly affairs . |
| 2 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 3 | Occasionally he appeared in a bomber jacket and he frequently wore a hat — when we were there it was an engaging and stylish grey and white cap , though sometimes an American baseball hat in honour of Stevie Ray Vaughan . |
| 4 | Alan was on the screen ; there were streaks of blood on his face , his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders . |
| 5 | On News at Ten Alan was cut from the wrecked coach , then he wore a blanket and said , ‘ One hell of a crash , that 's all , ’ and then he sat in bed in pyjamas . |
| 6 | Susan wore a high-shouldered gold tube of a dress with a tall collar which restricted the movement of her neck . |
| 7 | The bride wore a mini-dress . |
| 8 | He wore a luridly decorated black tracksuit and a broad smile . |
| 9 | No matter how corny the characters in the picture postcard parish of Rathcullen , I recognised the fields , I knew the smell of Guinness from drunk men 's breath , and my father wore a cap just like Darby O'Gill 's . |
| 10 | He wore a cap and a longish mac done up at the neck . |
| 11 | For example every day when the came to see me she wore a beautiful new sari . |
| 12 | She wore a white blouse with an ostentatious frilly jabot and a big paste spray on one lapel . |
| 13 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 14 | I wore a short wig in the recent production of Noel Coward 's Private Lives . |
| 15 | Mr Michael Howard , the Water minister , wore a broad smile as he watched his mistress 's vision of a share-owning democracy lining up . |
| 16 | British Sources wore a truculent glower and insisted that we were ‘ true Europeans ’ . |
| 17 | Kathy Acker 's off-the-shoulder dress displayed to advantage her collection of off-the-shoulder tattoos ; Sara Maitland wore a pale pink pyjama suit and Jean Binta Breeze seemed to be smoking a pipe . |
| 18 | He wore a big hat and reflector shades , and was not best pleased . |
| 19 | Mark Girouard , in The Victorian Country House , describes his appearance in the Alps : ‘ He wore a flannel suit , brown canvas gaiters and boots with porpoise-hide laces . |
| 20 | She wore a yellow ribbon |
| 21 | Around her hair she wore a yellow ribbon , |
| 22 | In the United States it dates back at least to the Civil War ; the 1949 John Ford-John Wayne movie , ‘ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon ’ , underscores the practice 's lineage . |
| 23 | ‘ 'What are you reading , Thomas ? ’ asked one of the boys who already wore a scholar 's gown . |
| 24 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 25 | ( To Jane 's son , Jack , who found the manor cold after his London flat , so wore a dressing gown all the time ) . |
| 26 | She was a small , emaciated mouse who wore a perpetually martyred expression . |
| 27 | ‘ The atmospheric conditions are not exactly propitious ’ — wore a bright red cloth cap from December 22nd . |
| 28 | She went over the place with the country gent estate agent , who wore a check cap , cavalry twill trousers , had a limp handshake and permanently narrowed blue eyes . |
| 29 | One wore a sack round his shoulders like a shawl , another had it round her waist as an apron . |
| 30 | The cat wore a jewelled collar . |