Example sentences of "had be wearing " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 2 | She pulled off the scarf that she had been wearing round her head to protect her ears and prevent her hair getting into her eyes and mouth . |
| 3 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 4 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 5 | As I had mistakenly left my only pair of worn-in boots in Salford — I had been wearing them when I packed the kit , and changed into shoes to travel to North Africa — I now had blisters under the balls of both feet and another running from the top of my left heel right under the foot . |
| 6 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 7 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 8 | Dr Mitchell opened the door to find a coat identical to the one the girl had been wearing . |
| 9 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 10 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 11 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 12 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 13 | He had been wearing his Race Train T-shirt , and he had identification in his pocket . |
| 14 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 15 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 16 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 17 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 18 | Jazzbeaux had been wearing them on and off for two days . |
| 19 | Jazzbeaux saw grey hair as the figure 's head passed through the knives of light , and a dress like the one Herman had been wearing in the bathroom . |
| 20 | I had been wearing the uniform in which he must remember her . |
| 21 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 22 | Cecilia would have been very surprised indeed if she had been wearing anything but jeans and a sweater or T-shirt , and she was not . |
| 23 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 24 | She had discarded the dirty wrapper she had been wearing and had on long silky black stockings and suspenders , a black peephole bra and crutchless panties . |
| 25 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 26 | He nodded in the direction of the balled-up overall Porter had been wearing . |
| 27 | Bissell 's own molecular composition , including the clothes he had been wearing , had proved just as chaotic as expected . |
| 28 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 29 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 30 | Not unless the climber had been wearing hobnailed boots . |