Example sentences of "wore [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The last time Gerber wore the famous black and white hooped shirt in 1983 he smashed a powerful Cardiff side with four tries . |
| 3 | The foreman wore the smug expression of the expert as he drove the cattle hack into the field . |
| 4 | Edward now wore the manic look of some animal transferred into the wrong environment , as though he might run amok , or bite . |
| 5 | The Campbell clansmen wore the filabeg also , but the castle folk of Inveraray wore the modern court fashion ; knee-length gown of fine wool , linen damask or velvet , the sleeves trailing nearly to the ground , all braided , slashed , looped , laced , furred and embroidered for the occasion ; bone-white shirt , long hose and long-toed shoes . |
| 6 | Coming from the RAF Special Police it was a typical mode of address and the man who barked it out wore the usual truculent expression . |
| 7 | She wore the usual black dress , and a black scarf around her hair . |
| 8 | He wore the usual faded , dun-coloured every-day clothes of the peasant and labourer , coarse woollen chausses and short homespun tunic , with a capuchon pushed back from his head and dangling at his back ; but the belt that circled his hips was of finely-tooled leather , and had straps to attach both sword and dagger , though he wore neither ; and his boots were knee-high , and also of soft leather , no doubt hand-worked somewhere in Wales , from native deerskin . |
| 9 | The battledress trousers were inclined to go baggy and the uniform jacket was a bit severe , so whenever we could get away with it we wore the other two items , and tended to let our hair float over our collars — also banned . |
| 10 | Peggy saw with some dismay that she wore the distant smile of a woman reviewing her late husband 's insurance position . |
| 11 | She had left her imprint upon them , and now her mind overlapped with his whenever he wore the sacred lenses . |
| 12 | He has stopped driving out to Wellport but I bet he misses our time there , its vigourlessness so safe and morally neutral , when he wore the passive uniform of old age . |
| 13 | Many of them wore the chequered scarves of the Palestinian fedayeen , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 14 | They wore the standard uniform of the well-to-do American out of office hours : Lacrosse sports shirts , tan cotton Oxfords , leather loafers . |
| 15 | Both wore the standard dress . |
| 16 | If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks . |
| 17 | It was so difficult in Australia to get that kind of music on record the ones we did get became very influential ; in fact we wore the bloody things out ! |
| 18 | Both had dyed black hair and wore the female biker battledress , the uniform black leather miniskirt , black lycra top and short bumfreezer denim jacket . |
| 19 | In the last century the length of the stalk varied with the status and elegance of the wearer , although the upper classes always wore the European fashions of the day . |
| 20 | Those who wore the black basilisk insignia , or the blue deathbats ? |
| 21 | In deference to the demands of Wewelsburg , he wore the black dress uniform of the SS , the Iron Cross First Class pinned to the left side of his tunic . |
| 22 | He wore the battered corduroy trousers and old tweed jacket of the skint London actor , not for effect but because buying clothes was a waste of money . |
| 23 | His dark face wore the cool , slightly ironic expression that she was getting to know well . |
| 24 | I wore the shantung tea-gown and a gold circlet round my forehead to make it clear that I 'm the Queen . |
| 25 | Bliss made the introductions , beginning with the taller of the men , both of whom wore the nondescript dark suits traditionally favoured by high-ranking police officers . |
| 26 | Most men wore the blue and white campaign medal from Chad and Lebanon as well as the ubiquitous red and dark blue of the General Service medal . |
| 27 | She wore the blue suit and the bright shawl and carried a rather shabby grey coat over her arm . |
| 28 | They wore the motley coat of jesters and one of them was hopping around on a hobby horse . |
| 29 | The model wore the new zip-front Jellyfish cossie from sportswear firm Speedo as part of a preview of what the nifty water babe will be wearing next year . |
| 30 | 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 . |