Example sentences of "[be] wearing a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , they 're wearing a matching floral set that Rachel made for them . |
| 2 | When you 're wearing a short skirt , you feel young , carefree and hedonistic . |
| 3 | Some jokes are so awful that you should only ever tell them while you 're wearing a decent pair of trainers . |
| 4 | Worn with jeans the all-in-one looks as though you 're wearing a regular vest . |
| 5 | If you 're wearing a bra we just undo your bra , okay ? |
| 6 | The same applies to the tops of your legs , especially if you 're wearing a high-cut swimsuit . |
| 7 | ‘ I say , old man , do you realize you 're wearing a Guards Brigade tie ? ’ |
| 8 | I want to ask why you thi why you feel better with people knowing you 're wearing a wig |
| 9 | If you have a skirt on , or if you 're wearing a dressing gown |
| 10 | You 're wearing an insubordinate expression . |
| 11 | Showing a large dog when you 're wearing an evening dress is not always easy . |
| 12 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 13 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 14 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 15 | The dog that had jumped over the fence into Jubilee Wood had n't been wearing a collar . |
| 16 | ‘ Then surely she would have been wearing a nightdress ? ’ |
| 17 | She might have been wearing a sign like those you see in car windows : GIVE MY CHILD A CHANCE — DO N'T PULL BACK . |
| 18 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 19 | He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning , whether it was snowing or not . ’ |
| 20 | Many will have been wearing a special costume for their childhood which has given them particular concealment . |
| 21 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
| 22 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 23 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 24 | For some reason , Rains had been wearing a crown with his evening clothes . |
| 25 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 26 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 27 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 28 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 29 | 1.9 In every case the onus lies on the defendant to prove that the plaintiff should have been wearing a seat belt and that his injuries would have been avoided or less severe if he had been . |
| 30 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |