Example sentences of "[adj] clothes [coord] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got out of my wet clothes and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 2 | When her inner disquiet began to peak in case Ven Gajdusek might once again ‘ overlook ’ that he had agreed to see her , Fabia got out of her damp clothes and went to wash her hair and take a bath . |
| 3 | They dreaded the prospect of accepting , but they were fond of their father , so they generally packed warm clothes and went . |
| 4 | When at last the work was finished , Mina and Kāli packed a basket with some clean clothes and went together to the stream to wash . |
| 5 | She liked wearing the cap ; it made her feel different , as did the long grey coat that went down to the top of her boots , because then she did not feel like Millie Forester , whose mother and father were dead and had no-one belonging to her , except the fat woman and the man with short legs , but more like a princess who , every now and again , donned strange clothes and went out among the common people , and was kind to them , and yet always remained a princess under the disguise . |
| 6 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 7 | Work on the external aspects of religion , such as putting on special clothes and going into special buildings , is likely to be seen by children as quite literally what religion is about . |
| 8 | Girls who wore lipstick and silly clothes and went out with American soldiers were good as damned in his opinion . |