Example sentences of "she [was/were] wearing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franca , with her almost black hair and her almost black dress , felt occluded , invisible , as if she were wearing a shadoor . |
| 2 | She was more naked than if she were wearing nothing . |
| 3 | As she walked into the room she saw Neil 's eyes hard on her , registering her beautiful gown , her carefully dressed hair , and even though the gown was plain she looked like a queen of society in it , she knew , and she wished that she were wearing McAllister 's shabby bottle-green shirtwaister again . |
| 4 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 5 | You know , what she were wearing in the book ? |
| 6 | The lady raised an admonitory finger in rebuke and the sergeant observed , to his surprise , that despite it being a hot summer 's day , she was wearing what appeared to be mittens . |
| 7 | The finishing touch would have been brylcreem only she was wearing it anyway . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm going to change , ’ and went into the bedroom ; so he did n't find out what she was wearing underneath . |
| 9 | She was wearing a huge orange tee shirt and black leggings and looked exactly as she always looked . |
| 10 | Everything she was wearing shot into line . |
| 11 | The suit she was wearing was the colour and texture of sacking , a foreign-looking suit somehow with those buttoned pockets , but the ticket collector was willing to bet it had n't cost a penny less than forty guineas . |
| 12 | Whenever she accompanied him , whether to a glossy film premiére or a major speech , they reported on the clothes she was wearing , the hairstyle , the hat , the jewellery , whether she looked well , or strained or too thin . |
| 13 | No prizes for guessing what she was wearing . |
| 14 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 15 | Her scrunched up face made her look as if she was wearing a perpetual mirthless grin . |
| 16 | She was wearing her felt hat and her tweed jacket with the jewelled brooch pinned to the lapel . |
| 17 | Higher and higher the shaking hand pushed the skirts until I saw that she was wearing a pair of white calico drawers , and remembering the black lace French knickers with their little rosebud trimmings , I understood . |
| 18 | She was wearing a plaid dressing-gown that her Dad had left behind : it smelled like an old dog and was as scratchy and heavy as wearing a carpet . |
| 19 | He had forgotten that Marie was only a girl ; forgotten that she was wearing a ridiculous dressing-gown . |
| 20 | ‘ Since the beginning with ‘ Holiday ’ , she was wearing tight clothes with a lot of jewellery , very interesting , ’ says Gaultier . |
| 21 | Despite the chilly autumn afternoon , she was wearing a thin old-fashioned dress which came down almost to her ankles . |
| 22 | She was wearing carpet slippers with pink pom-poms on the front , a wrap-around cotton housecoat tied in the middle , like Mary Ann 's , and a headscarf bulging with sausage-like curlers . |
| 23 | She was wearing his favourite peep-toed shoes with ankle-straps and deep two-colour wedges . |
| 24 | She was wearing a blue costume with a slit skirt that opened when she crossed her legs . |
| 25 | Her legs were crossed at the knee , and she was wearing her new wedge-heeled shoes . |
| 26 | She was wearing something pink and pretty that covered her body in soft folds . |
| 27 | Now she was wearing only a tight white brassière above her skirt . |
| 28 | She was wearing something pink and delicate that floated around her body when she moved . |
| 29 | She was wearing a white dress with big navy-blue spots and a tight white belt . |
| 30 | She was wearing her rouge and bright red lipstick again , and the childish plaits were gone from her hair . |