Example sentences of "was wearing [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( And , in case I muddled the halves and thought the lady 's name was Mary Marks , I decided that it would be a very windy day and that , as the skirt of her wedding gown was blown by the gales , I was able to see that she was wearing suspenders . ) |
| 2 | Damien mopped his brow , but decided not to remove his jacket , as he was wearing braces . |
| 3 | Bowler-hatted gateman Eric Petheridge failed to recognise the princess , who was wearing sunglasses and no immediately noticeable formal identification or entry badge , when she arrived with her detective after a car park lunch with friends . |
| 4 | I was wearing dresses that showed more than she ever would dare , before she was born . |
| 5 | He was wearing women 's clothes and make-up , and there was a wig next to his handbag on the passenger seat . |
| 6 | I was wearing shorts and whole families fed on my thin white legs . |
| 7 | ‘ If I had n't known he was wearing shoes I 'd have sworn he had clogs on , ’ Maggie said . |
| 8 | Mark said that when the Raja saw the damage he was wearing glasses ‘ which steamed up a bit . ’ |
| 9 | Of course he was wearing glasses . |
| 10 | She was wearing glasses , and trousers , and a pink shirt with embroidered flowers , and she looked rather frightening , and Clara half wished that she had not come . |
| 11 | The RUC have now issued a description of the man who had black hair , balding at the front and sides , and was wearing glasses . |
| 12 | He was wearing chains and bells like a freakster . |
| 13 | To my surprise , she was wearing panties underneath her nightdress . |
| 14 | Now that she was wearing skirts above the knees , as fashion demanded , he 'd noticed her long , slender legs and admired her ankles . |
| 15 | William , busily digging some unrecognizable vegetable out of the mud , was wearing gumboots and the jaunty remnants of a straw hat . |
| 16 | Milton was wearing deck-shoes . |
| 17 | He was wearing chinos , and looked almost American , and there was something sexually magnetic about him that at once reminded me of Dana . |
| 18 | I sat down and took off my shoes and socks — I was wearing slacks and trainers — and then walked across the bay , luxuriating in the feel of the fine warm sand under my bare feet . |
| 19 | I was wearing pyjamas . |
| 20 | The day Vonetta came to my flat to talk to me , she was wearing jeans , a white camisole top , and a shirt tied at the waist . |
| 21 | Like — if I was wearing jeans it would only be 501s and that kind of thing . |
| 22 | Theresa was wearing jeans and a grubby sweat shirt with a map of London 's Underground across the front . |
| 23 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 24 | Sophie was wearing jeans . |
| 25 | Suddenly Clare 's baby was wearing jeans and a navy nylon anorak , and howling for tough boots like the village boys ' . |
| 26 | She was wearing jeans and a denim shirt ( which he 'd bought her ) . |
| 27 | She was wearing jeans but her top was a rather tight yellow T-shirt and she felt as gauche as a schoolgirl and very vulnerable . |
| 28 | He was wearing jeans , a sports shirt and a cardigan . |
| 29 | He was wearing jeans . |
| 30 | He was wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt , revealing tautly muscled shoulders . |