Example sentences of "she [was/were] wear a [noun sg] " 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 wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together , but they did . |
3 | She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood , black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels . |
4 | She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar . |
5 | She was wearing a man 's woollen dressing-gown : the sleeves were too long for her and although she kept rolling them up , they fell down again almost immediately , shedding a little , grey storm of cigarette ash . |
6 | She was wearing a man 's sweater back to front , and under her hair — cut high and short now at the back — there was a triangle of white skin as soft and fresh as a newly broken bread-roll . |
7 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
8 | She was wearing a halter top thing that tied round the back of her neck . |
9 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
10 | I saw Sybil on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ the day before I started work on the book and she was wearing a gold bra top , huge fake-gold earrings and black trousers pulled in at the waist . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
13 | She was wearing a dressing-gown , but it was hanging open , and underneath she only had a négligé on , one of those flimsy things , I could see everything . |
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 | She was wearing a dress that fitted like a snake 's skin , and looked like one , too . |
16 | She was wearing a robe against the cold , her hair in two pigtails that made her look curiously vulnerable . |
17 | She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas . |
18 | She was wearing a dressing gown with a pattern of Chinese dragons . |
19 | She opened the door ; she was wearing a dressing gown . |
20 | She was wearing a groove in her thumb . |
21 | She was wearing a sarong and several garlands of flowers . |
22 | She was wearing a school uniform with white blouse and black shoes when she disappeared . |
23 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
24 | Had everyone fooled for a time , but she was wearing a body stocking . |
25 | She was wearing a taffeta skirt of burgundy , with a pretty close-fitting cream blouse that complimented her rich chestnut hair and dark eyes . |
26 | The phone was in the crook of her neck ; she was wearing a scarab ring on her wedding finger and used the thumb and little finger of the same hand to twitch it back and forth across the knuckle . |
27 | She was wearing a channel seam donkey coat , split level knees in purple and tartan loon shoes . |
28 | She was wearing a meshfoil microskirt , a Miss Piggy wig and strawberry pasties , her usual uniform . |
29 | She was wearing a bandage , or seemed to be , but it was on her arm , not her leg . |
30 | She was wearing a tweed check suit in shades of lovat green and brown and she did n't want his sticky fingers on it — or worse . |