Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] wearing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Though I can see why you must find that disappointing … ’ she let her gaze drift over his white trousers and faded T-shirt , the same white trousers and faded T-shirt he 'd been wearing earlier ‘ … after all the trouble you 've gone to changing for me . ’ |
| 6 | He almost certainly had a pearl fedora to go with the image and brown and white two-tone shoes , if he 'd been wearing any . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 8 | He braked but could not avoid the pedestrian whom he thought was wearing dark clothing . |
| 9 | This time he 's been wearing protective clothing . |
| 10 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |