Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] wearing a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some infidel was wearing an octiron collar , most unsporting , and of course I was a lot sharper in those days and my master used to use me to cut silk handkerchiefs in mid-air and — am I boring you ? ’ |
| 2 | Lavinia was wearing a tart an skirt and a green blouse and cardigan . |
| 3 | Room is obviously important when the ballerina is wearing a tutu , whose shape should not be distorted by a collision between the partners . |
| 4 | MAKE sure your child is wearing a hat , glasses or goggles and — most importantly — gloves every time they go out on the slopes . |
| 5 | He subsequently saw them laughing and talking with the guard before the train left Birmingham and described both youngsters as well dressed ; the boy was wearing a school uniform of yellow and brown with cap to match and scarf . |
| 6 | But Nora never wore an overall , she despised housework — and this girl was wearing an overall , not the rather smart dress for which Mrs. Fanshawe had first taken it . |
| 7 | Kaptan was wearing a plastic G I 'S helmet and putting a roll of caps into a toy gun . |
| 8 | Watches as well , everyone in the room was wearing a watch . |
| 9 | Gina is wearing a satin waistcoat in red and imperial purple with a matching skirt . |
| 10 | The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head , the woman a book on hers , where they can not be used , and the monk looks on with indifference . |
| 11 | The visitor was wearing a suit , but you could tell he was n't in the City as it was single-breasted . |
| 12 | The dead woman was wearing a pair of sunglasses . |
| 13 | You will find that in all such pictures before the war practically every man is wearing a cloth-cap or a hat . |
| 14 | THIS MAN IS WEARING A VIEW FROM SHELL SUIT . |
| 15 | One large young man was wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend , ‘ We want ink in our Pen ’ . |
| 16 | The old man was wearing a plastic raincoat but was hatless . |
| 17 | The American was wearing a lapel , badge , big enough for his own name and some other word . |
| 18 | The station master is wearing a hat shaped like a cucumber . |
| 19 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 20 | A cleaner disturbed Williams who by this time was wearing a researcher 's white coat complete with name tag , the court heard . |
| 21 | Her head was tilted to the side , and her face was wearing an expression of annoyance and confusion . |
| 22 | The cinnabar-covered skeleton ( simulating blood ) found at the bottom of a forty foot man-made shaft was wearing a gold death mask with eyes made of emeralds and large silver ear decorations , still covered by hundreds of thousands of turquoise , crystal , lapis lazuli and seashell beads . |