Example sentences of "[was/were] wearing [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday when I was attending Mass in the Santuario , I noticed two girls in the next pew who were wearing greased mountain boots and thick hand-knitted socks . |
| 2 | Certainly by the year 2000 BC , the tables of the Cretan rulers shone and glittered with drinking cups of gold and silver and , even in the century before the first temples were raised , those rulers were wearing elegant gold ornaments , not imported , but produced by Minoan craft workers . |
| 3 | Both were wearing grey flannel trousers and pale beige or fawn linen jackets . |
| 4 | The Sergeants who would supervise the Scouts were wearing hybrid body armour of eagle plastrons , flexible leggings , and great shoulder plates embossed with jewelled axes , but no helmets — for the more lightly armoured Scouts wore no covering to their heads , either . |
| 5 | He was wearing black track suit bottoms , black white and yellow T-shirt and three-quarter length yellow coat . |
| 6 | Flora Piercy was wearing black velvet trousers , and a large white cable-knit sweater . |
| 7 | She was wearing long evening gloves , indeed seemed to be fully dressed for a ball . |
| 8 | Everyone else was wearing ordinary daytime clothes . |
| 9 | Lady Selvedge , she now realised to her surprise , was wearing low-heeled walking shoes , not really quite the thing with her elaborately draped velvet toque but eminently sensible . |
| 10 | ‘ He had a great long stride — like he was wearing seven league boots . |
| 11 | He was wearing old plaid trousers , over-large and loose as pantaloons , and tied at the ankles with string . |
| 12 | She was wearing grey jogging bottoms , a lilac floral sweatshirt , white trainers and a long navy-blue overcoat when last seen in hospital . |
| 13 | She was wearing huge aviator glasses , designed to hide but only drawing attention to the palely perfect face , the unlipsticked mouth , the silvery blonde hair fine as maize silk , which was drawn back into the nape of her neck . |
| 14 | Jos was wearing yellow leather gauntlets which looked totally out of place in such a decrepit vehicle . |
| 15 | She was wearing white cotton jeans , a peach-coloured T-shirt and white tennis shoes . |
| 16 | When she was last seen Mrs Probyn was wearing white Bermuda shorts , a blue and white check cardigan and a blue and green jacket . |
| 17 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 18 | Jotan was wearing full court dress — a brocaded coat without fastenings , the fabric embroidered with gold wire and decorated with gems and seed pearls , over a high-collared shirt in silk tissue . |
| 19 | His legs were bare and he was wearing Indian leather sandals , the kind you had to soak in water before you first put them on . |
| 20 | She was wearing big maternity clothes and felt " dead weird " being with everyone else in school uniform . |
| 21 | He was wearing disreputable-looking denim bermudas . |
| 22 | This she had done , only to find herself talking to a horribly languid sort of character who obviously fancied himself rotten and who , she was prepared to swear , was wearing brown suede shoes and a shirt featuring tattersall checks , accompanied by a green knit tie . |