Example sentences of "[coord] he wear a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His burnished gold hair curled over the high collar of a royal blue coat , and he wore a black velvet waistcoat sprigged with silver leaves , an expensive-looking garment for a young physician unless he had private means . |
| 2 | He was a man of about forty , and he wore a black jacket buttoned to the throat with only a glimpse of white stock appearing above it . |
| 3 | The subject of the portrait was Rob ; only it was a caricature of Rob — the eyes bluer than they were in real life , the mouth laughing , salacious , suggestive … and he wore a wide-brimmed black hat with a jaunty ostrich plume , and beneath his chin was a froth of lace . |
| 4 | One of his eyes was half closed , and he wore a big hat which covered most of his head . |
| 5 | Thomas 's wails subsided and , a quarter of an hour later when they came back out on to the terrace , he was clean , his dark curls had been brushed and he wore a fresh shirt and shorts . |
| 6 | He was a tiny man , dapper and neat like most small men , and he wore a gold-encrusted eighteenth-century English general 's uniform with its complex aiguillette and thigh-length boots . |
| 7 | ‘ Joseph says the ghost is tall and he wears a black evening coat . ’ |
| 8 | He used to play baseball and he wears a white baseball cap that one day may become as famous as Pat Cash 's chequered headbands . |
| 9 | His gingerish fair hair was balding , but he wore a full beard which was nearly red in colour . |