Example sentences of "[noun] wearing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 2 | He told Taylor , who appeared in the dock wearing a dark suit with a small teddy bear mascot on the breast pocket , that Parliament had laid down a maximum sentence of 10 years for an appropriate case and to deter those who took the law into their own hands . |
| 3 | His shoulders sloped at an alarming angle so that he looked like a pyramid wearing a hat . |
| 4 | On matching paper with a cartoon of Snoopy wearing a Harvard T-shirt , was written : |
| 5 | Anthony 's voice opened Julia 's eyes and she saw her sister-in-law standing in the doorway wearing a most remarkable dress . |
| 6 | Apparently Hank 's divorce had come through sooner than expected , the deed was done one Saturday afternoon in the local Registrar 's Office , and she came back to Bourn wearing a wedding ring like a brass curtain ring ( Mary 's words ) , to await her discharge from the Waaf . |
| 7 | Draw up a list of 20 things you have never done that are silly but do n't cost much money and work your way down the list by doing one each day ( eg leave your car in the garage and hitch a lift , turn the daily newspaper into papier mâché , go to the shops wearing a funny hat , shake hands with the next 10 people you meet ) . |
| 8 | ‘ He used to sneak out of college wearing a spare jacket so 's no one 'd know he was missing . |
| 9 | ‘ Suddenly I was confronted by a huge and altogether indescribable blue figure wearing a red hat . |
| 10 | Another part of the exhibition is a caseful of just such gifts , presumably dusted down from a very full royal attic : a Maori figure with crossed eyes , a table with cowrie shells hanging from it as from an Australian hat , a fetching Japanese lacquer picnic set and a sinister raffia figure wearing a balaclava . |
| 11 | One night , a works policeman was disturbed in his office by a tramp-like figure wearing a strange hat . |
| 12 | The osiers were almost hidden by plaited straw and by interlacing branches of yew and laurel ; coloured streamers attached to the rim hung limply on the still air and within the Wheel , in a bower of straw and foliage , was a life-size figure wearing a grotesque mask and enveloped in a black cloak . |
| 13 | Two days after , I sit in while an Australian journalist wearing a Wayne 's World baseball cap backwards interrogates the other two on this matter . |
| 14 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 15 | Pictured here is Bess Cavendish with her sister Georgina wearing a tartan dress priced at around £170 . |
| 16 | Now she says she 'd like to do her own show , but points out , ‘ I ca n't ever see myself doing a pompous evening programme wearing a skirt and jacket . ’ |
| 17 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 18 | As staff at our branch do not wear jewellery , there were lots of angry comments regarding the member of staff on the front of the March issue wearing a necklace . |
| 19 | A little boy wearing a balaclava cap too large for him came trotting out of the house . |
| 20 | The illustration shows the head and trunk of a young boy wearing a number of bracelets and many beads , most of which were probably attached to clothing . |
| 21 | ’ It was the soft-shoe théâtre noir for prime time television , broken only by the agitated voice of an American security guard wearing a blue T-shirt yelling : ‘ Come on . |
| 22 | Black and white adult cat wearing a collar found in the area , on the twelfth of July . |
| 23 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |
| 24 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |
| 25 | He who goes to work wearing a Chelsea football kit under his suit and later makes love in the team socks while quoting Hamlet clearly has no truck with cultural snobbishness . |
| 26 | One of Ken 's aunts had come up in the world and arrived at the cemetery wearing a fur coat which was donned purely and simply to impress the other members of the family . |
| 27 | And then there was Our Lady of the Leftovers who entered the NFT bar wearing a fur stole and carrying a sequinned evening bag . |
| 28 | Graham Lambert and Martyn Walsh linger for a chat with the fans , and one girl wearing a home-made Cows shirt runs of wailing ‘ He likes my cow ! |
| 29 | It was a picture of a girl wearing a frilly bonnet and long , frilly drawers that reached down below her dress to her ankles . |
| 30 | A girl wearing a white cap and apron stepped inside , cast a shy glance at Caroline , and bobbed her head in a swift but unmistakable gesture of obeisance . |