Example sentences of "she be 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 | Over there , at the , you ca n't see her she is behind that pillar and she 's wearing a peach jumper and |
| 3 | ‘ She 's wearing a wedding ring . |
| 4 | She was wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together , but they did . |
| 5 | She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood , black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels . |
| 6 | She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was wearing a halter top thing that tied round the back of her neck . |
| 11 | She was wearing a halter dress the colour of flame that had wilted in the first hour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | She was wearing a dress that fitted like a snake 's skin , and looked like one , too . |
| 18 | She was wearing a robe against the cold , her hair in two pigtails that made her look curiously vulnerable . |
| 19 | She was wearing a dressing gown and pyjamas . |
| 20 | She was wearing a dressing gown with a pattern of Chinese dragons . |
| 21 | She opened the door ; she was wearing a dressing gown . |
| 22 | She was wearing a groove in her thumb . |
| 23 | She was wearing a sarong and several garlands of flowers . |
| 24 | She was wearing a school uniform with white blouse and black shoes when she disappeared . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Had everyone fooled for a time , but she was wearing a body stocking . |
| 27 | She was wearing a taffeta skirt of burgundy , with a pretty close-fitting cream blouse that complimented her rich chestnut hair and dark eyes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was wearing a channel seam donkey coat , split level knees in purple and tartan loon shoes . |
| 30 | She was wearing a meshfoil microskirt , a Miss Piggy wig and strawberry pasties , her usual uniform . |