Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] shirt and " in BNC.
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| 1 | UK profits soared 60 per cent to £60 million as the loss-making shirt and fabrics businesses were turned around . |
| 2 | Werewolf had called him Robin Redbreast because of the striped shirt and red tie . |
| 3 | Navy cotton culottes were teamed with the soft centre of an avocado-green shirt and a navy jacket , long and loosely fitted . |
| 4 | The Glovers , cautiously , observed their hosts ; both wore suits that spoke of much expense , the senior and thinner with a striped shirt , the other with a lilac shirt and pink silk tie . |
| 5 | In fact , the clothes Yuri had worn to our shoot — an American jacket and trousers with a grey shirt and fur-lined black trainers — would n't have looked at all of place on the dance floor of Stringfellows , but Yuri was after a smoother image . |
| 6 | He was dressed in a crumpled brown suit with a brown shirt and tie . |
| 7 | He was photographed by Man Ray in a sharp , dark suit with a striped shirt and white collar . |
| 8 | Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes . |
| 9 | He often wore pinstripe suits and braces , coordinated with a smart shirt and tie , like the outfits portrayed in the film Wall Street . |
| 10 | The man wore an old grey suit with a white shirt and no tie . |
| 11 | She had changed into a striped shirt and a pair of faded jeans that were slightly too large for her . |
| 12 | I washed and , in deference to the slight formality Conchis apparently liked in the evenings , changed into a white shirt and a summer suit . |
| 13 | ‘ What you doin' round 'ere , mush ? ’ a wild-looking man in a torn shirt and ragged jeans wanted to know . |
| 14 | Mitch stood under the light in a tartan shirt and jeans that hung off his buttocks . |
| 15 | Even wee Jamie looked smart in a new shirt and trousers and a bow tie . |
| 16 | He was dressed in a blue shirt and jeans , which should have made him look more relaxed , and did n't . |
| 17 | When Robin burst on stage in a Hawaiian shirt and baggy trousers , the crowd cheered and applauded — barely able to comprehend that Robin had landed in Oz , let alone materialized before their eyes without oopla or hype . |
| 18 | Paula Rojas , 18 , was ordered into a room while he got dressed in a green shirt and blue nylon jogging pants — the clothes he was found dead in . |
| 19 | Julia stayed the rest of the day in bed , got up and bathed at six , dressed carefully in a green shirt and black jeans , and then walked slowly down to the town . |
| 20 | The young doctor looked like a young doctor in , say , Young Doctors , lean and fit in a striped shirt and tie , yuppie-style , with dark curly hair and a tan . |
| 21 | He was painted by Modigliani and Picarbia in a white shirt and tiny bow tie . |
| 22 | Dressed in a white shirt and trousers , and with his white hair and a face apparently never submitted to the sunshine , he looked as though he had been rolled in flour preparatory to cooking . |
| 23 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 24 | He was smartly dressed in a white shirt and dark trousers . |
| 25 | When he was dressed , in a clean shirt and a fresh suit , he telephoned Inspector Lane . |
| 26 | He came in an open-necked shirt and walked to the makeshift podium without a very obvious security presence . |
| 27 | Blufton had carefully manicured his image as a man of the people over the past couple of years , the sergeant went on , preferring to give interviews in an open-necked shirt and jeans — both with designer labels — rather than wear a suit . |
| 28 | In fact , the costume was exactly like Clive 's , down to the horrible shirt and expensive shoes . |
| 29 | Above , Slater sported a well-worn hacking jacket over a black shirt and a black bow tie which appeared to have lots of small , dull red stones set in it . |
| 30 | Short and square , with greasy black hair and a Van Dyke beard , he wore a sea-green smoking-jacket over a frilled shirt and wine-coloured velvet breeches . |