Example sentences of "she wore the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy saw with some dismay that she wore the distant smile of a woman reviewing her late husband 's insurance position . |
| 2 | Her coat , also , was black and very long , and winter and summer she wore the same comfortable black straw hat . |
| 3 | He could also be seen riding on Buddie 's back with a shiny red apple in each hand , and again walking beside Smallfry on the day she wore the big yellow roses in her hair . |
| 4 | Around her neck she wore the famous ‘ Regent ’ , the diamond beyond compare in its beauty which is part of the Crown jewels , while on her head sparkled a magnificent tiara . |
| 5 | She was as tall as they were , she wore the clothes just as well and she was just as pretty , if not prettier . |
| 6 | In the meantime , she wore the same old rags week after week , lived in poverty and was ‘ faithful ’ to her ex-lover . |
| 7 | She knew she wore the scarf through a sense of guilt , a gesture to her family to say that she had n't forgotten her religious upbringing . |
| 8 | She wore the spectacles , and now some fragment of her is inside my mind , just as some fragment of me is lodged in hers . |
| 9 | Over the jacket she wore the inveterate shawl of cockney women . |
| 10 | She wore the crown while they sat in the sunshine , eating the cake , but by the time they went home it was already wilting a little . |
| 11 | She wore the New Look , a coat of beige gaberdine which fell in two swaying , graceful pleats from her waist at the back ( the swaying must have come from very high heels , but I did n't notice her shoes ) , a hat tipped forward from hair swept up . |
| 12 | When she wore the collar , she ate only with the utmost difficulty . |
| 13 | She wore the " uniform " of a house congaie — a long black skirt and a white blouse-cloth tied in the small of her back to leave her arms and shoulders bare ; on her dark hair she wore a scrap of cloth , also of white . |
| 14 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 15 | She wore the expression of a catechumen , raw and as yet uninitiated , who dimly sees the advantages of the otherwise disagreeable course before her . |
| 16 | She wore the usual black dress , and a black scarf around her hair . |
| 17 | She wore the strangest shoes Carolyn had ever seen . |
| 18 | She wore the same red berries . |
| 19 | She wore the Hollower to do it . |
| 20 | To top things off , she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go , and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like . |
| 21 | She wore the blue suit and the bright shawl and carried a rather shabby grey coat over her arm . |