Example sentences of "she wear a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wears a nightdress of her own , a faded pattern of lilacs . |
| 2 | The bride , who was given in marriage by her father , looked radiant ; she wore a dress of ivory silk crêpe made by the Chelsea Design Company . |
| 3 | She wore a dress of fine and flowing black fabric and many long strings of blue crystal beads and a rather affected little red hat . |
| 4 | She wore the " uniform " of a house congaie — a long black skirt and a white blouse-cloth tied in the small of her back to leave her arms and shoulders bare ; on her dark hair she wore a scrap of cloth , also of white . |
| 5 | She wore a kind of schoolkid outfit — blouse and tie , cheerleader 's pleated skirt , bobbysox . |
| 6 | Like all the other officers ' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising , pale-green skirt and shirt . |
| 7 | A generously proportioned blonde , she wore a blouse of thin white silk with outrageous decolletage and virtually nothing underneath . |
| 8 | The folds of this pinafore fell amply from a short yoke , and beneath it she wore a succession of woollen jumpers . |
| 9 | Of rather grim appearance , she wore a tunic of writhing snakes . |