Example sentences of "[noun pl] and a [adj] shirt " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was answered by a slim blonde-haired woman of about her own age dressed in jeans , trainers and a candy-stripe shirt several sizes too big for her . |
| 2 | He wore his thinning hair short , and his collars long , preferring for dress a clash of tweeds and a striped shirt ; always a tie ; invariably a waistcoat . |
| 3 | Anyway , he was a lean and hot-eyed human , wearing the usual Famlio garb — a roomy over-tunic and trousers of dull black with white pinstrips and a black shirt with a wide white necktie hanging down the front . |
| 4 | Any hope I might have entertained that Lewis and Verity 's little Hogmanay hug had been an aberration , something they would fail to follow through , or feel for some reason embarrassed about , was comprehensively quashed the next evening when they turned up together at Uncle Hamish and Aunt Tone 's , bearing all the signs of new lovers ( literally so in the case of Lewis 's neck , which displayed a line of passion purpurae worthy of an industrial vacuum cleaner , and which were ill-concealed by Lewis 's longish dark curls and a white shirt fastened with a bootlace tie ) . |
| 5 | ( Rule of Life No. 6 : be prepared to survive on one extra pair of socks and knickers and a spare shirt . |
| 6 | I have reservations about the gown , and the designer and I decide on purple trousers and a lilac shirt — that way I 'm covered . |
| 7 | He was not wearing his faded jeans , but a pair of creamy-coloured trousers and a short-sleeved shirt , and he had combed his hair away from his face . |
| 8 | Just Piers , entering the room with the same easy stride that she remembered so clearly , dressed casually in a pair of beige trousers and a short-sleeved shirt . |
| 9 | Outside the Freitas cottage Abuelo sat on his usual rocking chair , and beside him sat Constance , also rocking , dressed in old cotton trousers and a loose shirt with the sleeves rolled up . |
| 10 | The figure sitting on its far side was a man wearing sand-coloured trousers and a red shirt ; he had reddish-brown hair brushed straight back and looked square-shouldered and sturdy . |
| 11 | Dora looked surprised , thought for a moment and said , ‘ Blue trousers and a white shirt , I think . ’ |
| 12 | Just me trousers and a white shirt that |
| 13 | Wearing a rather absurd black tasselled fez , an army officer 's uniform jacket , riding breeches and a black shirt , he delivered his speech slowly , articulating the words very clearly . |
| 14 | Perdita was about to yell at him when her attention was distracted by a man with a cruel leathery face wearing Gaucho pants and a white shirt who was galloping a pony very fast round a tiny corral . |
| 15 | The rural past provides inspiration for a lot of his clothes ; a tweed jacket , drill jodhpurs and a white shirt are very Ralph Lauren . |
| 16 | In shorts and a short-sleeved shirt , he looked almost painfully thin . |
| 17 | He was dressed in old shorts and a baggy shirt . |
| 18 | She was wearing a red suit with red boots and a pleated shirt . ’ |
| 19 | And Dieter — I 've seen him in similar clothes to the ones Alain wore yesterday , blue slacks and a white shirt . |
| 20 | He wore his better Jeans and a laundered shirt , open at the neck . |
| 21 | Wearing jeans and a blue shirt , she was tugging at a filing cabinet which was too large for her to embrace and which was threatening to over-balance on her . |
| 22 | She wore flared jeans and a tight shirt , a sort of cotton grandpa vest that outlined her breasts , and her feet were bare . |
| 23 | Then she dressed quickly in jeans and a long-sleeved shirt and pulled on her thick Aran cardigan . |
| 24 | I 'm going to wear jeans and a white shirt . |
| 25 | Jeans and a white shirt . |
| 26 | He was dressed ready for his outing in clean jeans and a white shirt . |
| 27 | He was in jeans and a white shirt open at the neck , the sleeves rolled up over powerful brown arms , and Jenna experienced an unexpected shiver as she remembered those arms holding her yesterday . |