Example sentences of "[be] wearing a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Worn with jeans the all-in-one looks as though you 're wearing a regular vest .
2 The same applies to the tops of your legs , especially if you 're wearing a high-cut swimsuit .
3 When you 're wearing a short skirt , you feel young , carefree and hedonistic .
4 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
5 But he may have been wearing a dark ski cap of the Deerhunter style .
6 He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out .
7 He may have been wearing a green bomber jacket .
8 Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment .
9 She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt .
10 The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time .
11 I am wearing a shiny souwester ;
12 And tho' I know the smooth curve of your naked shoulders , right now , and now it 's right , you are wearing a moth-mauve shirt and a chic built-up soap-opera heroine jacket .
13 I 'm wearing a red dress .
14 ‘ I 'm wearing a red dress . ’
15 He seemed to be wearing a dark-coloured suit .
16 Standing there in my civilian clothes I felt completely out of place and wished that I could be wearing a blue tracksuit like the rest of them .
17 I 'll be wearing a green tweed overcoat and a brown felt hat . ’
18 ‘ And Mrs Healy will have thrown away her corsets and be wearing a short skirt . ’
19 If you can imagine being on a steep , snow-covered slope , below which there is a 1000 m ( 3,500 ft ) sheer drop , would you prefer to be wearing a shiny nylon cagoule or a rough old woollen jumper ?
20 From what I could see of him — mostly his spectacles and his left arm around the door jamb — he appeared to be wearing a red silk kimono .
21 If any person had the authority to be in the vicinity he would be wearing a high visibility vest , as laid down in the Railway Regulations , it would be madness not to do so .
22 Well I 'll be wearing a distressed leather jacket , black jeans , a new short haircut which makes me look really hard and a large stomach .
23 Or he occasionally buys a er a shirt with a a fine stripe in it , but he says the continentals expect you to be wearing a white shirt .
24 This male shape or essence seemed to be wearing a white coat ( a medic 's stark white smock ) .
25 You were wearing a blue gaberdine suit and a white blouse with a pussy bow at the neck . ’
26 If I were wearing a next-to-nothing nightie and he was sitting on my bed , I 'd be having serious trouble breathing too !
27 He is wearing a blue tunic and around his shoulders is a fur cloak made of the skins of the hyrax .
28 When this attempt by pseudo-Britain succeeds , the real British look desperately for evidence of their own national achievement in the first moon landing , and find it in the fact that one of the astronauts is wearing a British watch : ‘ This is a great day for us .
29 It is equally important when she is wearing a soft tunic or one-piece tights and leotard .
30 Mary is wearing a light coat ; so is Sue .
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