Example sentences of "wear a long [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wears a long black coat , and a hat , and a skullcap under it , would you believe ? ’ |
| 2 | She wears a long yellow sweater and light blue jeans . |
| 3 | ‘ Wear a long flowing linen dress rather than a short straight one that will show creases . ’ |
| 4 | The menfolk have an aged , craggy appearance , being hunch-backed from their hard labour , and wear a long grey beard . |
| 5 | He was wearing a long woolly pullover with hedgehogs all over it , nothing else . |
| 6 | She is wearing a long fitted skirt of khaki . |
| 7 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 8 | Once the choir had filed into their places there was standing room only , and even Mr Salmon , wearing a long black coat and deep-brimmed black hat , was among those who were to be found huddled at the back . |
| 9 | One of the preserved scenes depicts a Libyan , with tattooed loins and exposed genitals , wearing a long white cloak , about to cut the throat of a prostrate Egyptian . |
| 10 | After a while a flickering light appeared in the distance and drew steadily nearer ; a torch-bearer came into view , a girl , wearing a long white gown which left her arms bare ; she carried aloft a burning torch which gave off a great deal of tarry smoke . |
| 11 | She was wearing a long white cotton skirt , flat shoes , and hand-knit cotton top in pale pink . |
| 12 | Fei Yen had dressed quite simply , in a peach ch'i p'ao , over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk , decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly . |
| 13 | She wore a long full-skirted dress of white organdie and a headdress of artificial lilies of the valley , and carried white roses and carnations . |
| 14 | Not yet thirty , she wore a long dark skirt and a pale scrap of cheap cloth above the waist that left her arms and shoulders bare . |
| 15 | She wore a long black jacket dotted with outsize white buttons over a skirt of broad black and white stripes last night . |
| 16 | She had wisps of grey hair poking out from under a black lace bonnet and wore a long black lace dress down to her feet . |