Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] wear [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 2 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 3 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 4 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 5 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 6 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |