Example sentences of "[was/were] wear [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees . |
| 2 | He had taken off his fireman 's jacket and was wearing only a high-necked , short-sleeved singlet of yellowed wool , badly stained beneath the arms . |
| 3 | She was wearing only a white dress ; she would be frozen without a coat . |
| 4 | His eyes dropped blatantly downward and she remembered with a start that she was wearing only a flimsy nightdress , barely skimming the tops of her slender thighs . |
| 5 | Now she was wearing only a tight white brassière above her skirt . |