Word Sketch for wear (v)

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• He was wearing a thick grey cardigan over a white shirt and it reminded her of how chilly the air was in the house.
• The Chiefs and notables were gorgeous in mantles of crimson, blue or green velvet, richly embroidered with gold thread, worn over silken shirts; some had lion- or leopard-skin capes draped about their shoulders.
• Surprise made her catch a breath, but it was the swiftly ensuing resentment that held it locked in her lungs for seconds after she should have expelled it as she stared questioningly at Luke Scott, casually elegant in a beautifully made lightweight jacket worn over a pale shirt and obviously expensive trousers with a discreetly fashionable belt.
• His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt.
• Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls -- Rena, Hugo's favourite house model, wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants.
• 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.
• But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt, which is somewhat smoother and less worn, together with my new pullover -- oh, no, how odd, this is my old pullover -- but -- ah, now I remember, yes, worn over a cotton shirt -- which again is something smooth.

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• The priest wore a cowl over his head.
• She heard Ben come into the market-room, but when the kitchen door did not immediately open, she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape.
• The belt here is hidden under the over fall, and a further garment, a veil, is worn over head and shoulders.
• On his third raid Fielding wore a sock over his head.
• But I got my own back -- at the time I was writing a column for the Guardian , so I wrote '20 Things You Didn't Know About the Editor of The Sun " -- the Editor of The Sun wears his pyjamas over his head and he has twelve daughters, all called Spot.
• These "five techniques" (requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated, having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours, depriving them of sleep, subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them) were subsequently condemned as "torture" by the European Rights Commission (Hewitt, 1982:157-8).
• She wore a scarf over her head and dark glasses.
• "Why don't I just wear a bag over my head?" she asked.
• Their mother (i.e. Surjeet's mother-in-law) kept asking me to wear it over my head.
• The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train, together with the mourning hood, but even the manner of wearing the hood changed: draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head.

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• In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress.
• You should have worn a coat over that dress -- the night's not warm enough for an outfit like that."
• The armourers were the scruffiest erks to be seen anywhere -- untidy, good-natured, mostly wearing leather jerkins over their battle dress (held together with pieces of wire), and mostly in need of a shave as well.
• Franca did not attempt to wipe away the tears, she let them roll down and drip onto the front of the apron which she was wearing over her brown dress.
• Rose was wearing a dull black cardigan over a black dress.

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• They all wore symbolic black clothes over bright yellow T-shirts and all spoke in Welsh, their statements being translated into English afterwards.
• He was wearing a silvery Italian suit over a T-shirt which read HONK IF YOU LIKE HUNKS.
• He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt, which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out.

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• He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
• He was wearing a waterproof cape over his white sweater and had changed into knee-length rubber boots.
• He kissed her briefly on the lips and came into the flat, a slightly-built sandy-haired man in his mid-thirties wearing a heavy black overcoat over a sweater and cords.

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• The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head -- can you imagine going to school like that...
• One was tall and grey-haired, thin but broad-shouldered, wearing a voluminous cricket sweater over baggy grey trousers.
• Designated use: multi-use windproof trousers -- can be used all year if worn over fleece trousers or climbing tights.

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• When you go to school you will wear a scarf over your hair and you will be taken there every morning by your husband."
• She was older than her brother and she wore a black lace cap over her grey hair.
• Looking now at her plump, well-kept hands, two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English.

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• That was Scott-Scobie, a swinger from their harmlessly-named "Research Department" forty-fiveish, healthily plump, curly dark hair and wearing a rumpled linen suit.
• He worked six days a week in his white milking clothes, milking and butter-making, and on the seventh he wore his best suit to take his family proudly to church.
• The men wear suits with collars and ties, so I wear a suit.
• He wore a formal suit and had the pressured air of someone who had been side-tracked from an important engagement.
• He had left his outer clothes downstairs and he wore his cheap Latvian suit with its wide trouser bottoms as though it was from Savile Row.
• He had a heavy moustache and wore a brown gaberdine suit that didn't fit too well.
• It's big, it's loud and it wears an ill-fitting suit: more "youth" telly inanity on REMOTE CONTROL before NME 's own kings of pestilence Collins and Maconie perform more of their light-hearted haircuts, sorry, comic turns for MARK GOODIER .
• The man, middle-aged, wearing a suit, complied with a nervous smile.
• "At one of the Dutch gigs there was a man dressed completely in green, wearing a Robin Hood suit and leaping around.
• He wears a three-piece suit with an old-fashioned watch-chain looped across his waistcoated paunch.

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• Anna wore a short cream dress, from which her long legs emerged, seemingly, for ever.
• Franklin D. Hauser sat in a large Regency chair, wearing evening dress, in the large living room at the front of the house.
• "I wore a dress by Azzedine Alaia; Tyson and Naima were bridesmaids.
• Now the eighteen-forties sees the development of manufacturing process, clothes are getting easier and easier to make, cheaper and cheaper, so fashion is changing faster because people can afford to, whereas in earlier times, if you wore a woollen dress, it had been you know, you know, somebody had done the sheep for you, had spun the wool and woven the wool and you were damned if you were going to take this dress off until it fell to pieces round you.
• If I'm going out for a professional dinner, something formal, I will wear an evening dress.
• Mabs wore a red bathing dress, Tashie a blue; both wore white rubber caps.
• One wore a tattered summer dress in pink spotted cotton with double flounces, the other a pinafore over a checked blouse.
• At his side was Lady Isabella who for that day had cast aside her mourning weeds and wore a pure gold dress with matching veil.
• She was still wearing the thin cotton dress that she'd worn in the prison hospital, but now there was a shawl around her shoulders as well.

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• And no one, but no one is wearing a bobble hat.
• Our man wears a cheerful yellow hat.
• As she sat alone in the smoky little room eating her dinner, in walked a handsome man, with curly black hair and brown eyes, wearing a black hat and corduroy suit.
• Antonia fantasised about chauffeur-driven cars, wearing big hats and being waltzed through the doors of Number 10
• Her coat, also, was black and very long, and winter and summer she wore the same comfortable black straw hat.
• Or anybody that wears a hat."
• Most people wore black and those who couldn't afford dark clothing managed to borrow some, and the men wore hard hats.
• The laws about wearing hard hats and regularly inspecting scaffolding and erecting guard rails aren's just petty bureaucracy, these precautions have saved lives.
• OK, how much henching have you done and will you wear a steel bowler hat?
• "If I went on holiday in the sun I would use high factor cream, stay in the shade at midday and wear a hat and t-shirts.

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• She was wearing jeans but her top was a rather tight yellow T-shirt and she felt as gauche as a schoolgirl and very vulnerable.
• He was wearing jeans and a black sweatshirt, revealing tautly muscled shoulders.
• More still are for sale legally over the counter in shops like the Brass Rail on La Brea, the store that sold guns to the Black Panthers in the 1960s and where I watched white and Korean men wearing jeans queuing to buy.
• On the other hand, the most important person, the cameraman, wore jeans and a Micky Mouse T-shirt, over which his mournful, deadpan moon face shone incongruously.
• The fortress-farm was full of people, all young and wearing tattered jeans and T-shirts with "green" slogans.
• Advertising was a large tatty lino-floored room crammed with people who all wore faded jeans de rigueur , with a smell of spray mount, and magic markers littered everywhere.
• Most of her clothes were either tailored for work or casual; when she was at home she normally only wore jeans and sweaters, she thought, then gave a little laugh at her behaviour.
• The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.
• If I'm going down to the pub with my mates, I will probably just wear jeans but, again, I'll wear a nice shirt and smart shoes.
• was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me, this means nothing to me, cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away, but he, he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans, and socks and said her jeans were too short

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• The Americans, who wore similar uniforms, threatened revenge so, to help identification within the regiment, the 46th wore red feathers in their caps.
• Like all the other officers' wives she wore a uniform of their own devising, pale-green skirt and shirt.
• At his trial in 1945, he himself insisted on wearing the very simplest uniform of a Marshal of France, his only decoration the Medaille Militaire.
• For example, we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line.
• Wearing the uniform of the wrestling ring, where masked men representing the forces of good fight others representing evil, Superbarrio has found other pursuits more of a challenge.
• Pupils must remember that they represent the School when travelling to and from the School and at all times when wearing our uniform.
• The inmates wore a uniform of pale blue, the girls with white pinafores.
• I spent the evening in one of those awful cellar bars where all the women were blonde and laughing, and the men wore that uniform.
• It is no coincidence that combat soldiers, particularly paratroops, wear camouflage uniforms that somewhat resemble a leopard's spotted coat.
• The women wear the same blue uniforms as the men.

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• The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
• He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were, at least in part, cream-coloured.
• He always wore the same light-coloured clothes, matching his light-coloured hair.
• Men, women and children throw coloured water and red "gulai" at their friends, so it is not a good idea to wear your best clothes!
• wear bright clothes and use bright lights at night.
• Hospital managers believe that if nurses wear casual clothes it would help break down barriers between them and patients.
• He would wear private clothes and say that he was a merchant from the Northern Capital.
• "Robyn, why are you wearing those clothes?
• I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes, and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth.
• "I only wear British clothes and I'm extremely glad to be advertising a British car on TV, the Vauxhall Astra," he said yesterday.

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• He was wearing a ginger sports jacket, and he thrust a couple of ballpoints into the breast pocket.
• Named after a volcano, Karrimor are clearly confident you shouldn't freeze while wearing this jacket.
• A lone man at nearly midnight, wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour...
• "Did he wear a jacket and tie in the house?"
• After a reception at Lythe Hill Hotel, the bride and bridegroom left for a honeymoon in Southern Ireland, the bride wearing a lavender-coloured wool jacket with cream skirt, shirt and matching shoes.
• He didn't wear a white jacket like hospital doctors but a heavy greatcoat with the collar turned up and boots dampened with slush.
• Then I began to wonder whether, by wearing a loose jacket and sitting down all the time, I could keep him from noticing.
• He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
• He had brown, or black, short, wavy hair, and wore a green jacket with a hexagonal pattern, a white T-shirt and dark-coloured trousers.
• He was wearing a pyjama jacket and a white naval jersey.

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• I, I remember being stared at because I was wearing trousers when I came to live in Scotland forty four years ago!
• He had been playing golf and was wearing cavalry-twill trousers and a plaid tie round an unbuttoned shirt-neck.
• At least our ministers wear trousers -- though you would wonder, if Bisset is frightened to come here among the desperate sinners of Grandtully."
• A similar dazzling double-take is achieved by Moira, who works as a secretary in a big office and wears bog-standard floral Laura Ashley trousers and cotton jumpers like the rest of us, but when she leaves work pulls on a very old duffle coat -- white at the seams, so old that it can't be accidental -- which screams out, "I am an intellectual, actually.
• In her wake came the likes of Chrissie Hynde , who found it easier just to wear the trousers.
• They were wearing trousers, but that didn't prove anything.
• Today he was wearing long trousers and a very remarkable jacket, and it did not even matter that his shoes were too small for his feet or that the safety-pin at his throat was digging into his flesh.
• Like all the other vibrancers in the house, she wore loose trousers and a shirt of pale colours, but also affected a bright red embroidered waistcoat to denote her superiority in status.
• Johnny, as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers, began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist, the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively.
• He was wearing light trousers today, and a light blue polo shirt that hugged his figure, revealing the muscles of his torso in precise detail.

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• They are holding automatic rifles and wearing steel helmets.
• The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light, and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet, the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts, heavy jungle boots and short thick socks.
• wearing a crash helmet and erm a buoyancy jacket, cos if you fell in you could hit your head on the rocks.
• At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated, and his Helmet coin type, perhaps current from 1003 to 1009, depicts him in armour; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent's Tongue, the army feared Æthel-red no less than God, and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies.
• The advocate-depute, Roderick Macdonald, QC, told the High Court in Edinburgh that Forman, wearing a crash helmet and scarf, had been chased from the scene by another bank worker, Robin Young, and a motorist, Christopher Smith, but escaped.
• He was wearing a balaclava helmet, tee shirt and grey pullover with a grey overcoat and worn white training shoes.
• Encourage your child to wear a helmet when cycling.
• But Mr Bottomley, who made road safety a dominant feature of his work as a Minister and still campaigns on it, said deaths would be more than halved if every cyclist wore a helmet.
• Mrs Weaver, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the fall, was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Wearing an open-faced helmet, I joined Simon at the Escort, climbed into the stripped-down cockpit over supporting struts and got strapped in.

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• Advise her to wear gloves (at least) when holding a Conger Eel?
• The view through the small rear mirror is rather limited, as Jill Stanton has mentioned before, and the manual wing mirrors are so stiff that trying to fine-tune them is like trying to thread a needle wearing boxing gloves.
• The composite that reached us was not attractive: to wear gloves, to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels.
• "You wear gloves, of course?"
• It is now time to recognise the impracticability of the two tier system for phlebotomy and persuade all health care workers to wear gloves for venepuncture.
• Wearing plastic gloves, he was picking up a pipe from a glass bowl to slip it inside a transparent bag.
• The cops all wear rubber gloves and all carry guns.
• "But they might hiv worn gloves."
• I was dressed in a heavy winter coat and still wore my gloves.
• He wore gloves, as he had since he'd first entered the vehicle -- stolen from a food depot a hundred miles to the north.

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• So, for example, an Orc rider wearing a chainmail shirt and carrying a shield has an armour save of 3+ compared to 4+ for a man wearing the same armour and riding a horse, and 5+ for the same Orc fighting on foot.
• He was wearing an open-necked shirt, and his blond hair flopped over his eyes, which were smiling with a lazy insolence.
• Alternative kits are an insult to the true supporters of the game and to those who have worn the white shirt in the past with pride.
• As for the shirts, I not only dont think theres anything wrong with wearing football shirts... in many cases its a bloody great help.
• As the situation required, David would play almost anywhere -- he actually wore eight different numbered shirts for us in four seasons in the 1st Division -- and rarely, if ever, even in such illustrious company was he outshone.
• Got to have that Dils doo dee doo doo doo I'll go and change I'm gonna let my hair go down am I not wearing a football shirt?
• She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
• The stage Englishman wore a pink silk shirt and a lime polka-dot bow-tie.
• Did you get to wear your football shirt as well?
• He still seemed to be wearing his favourite shirt and jeans.

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• He'll have a red ribbon to his buttonhole--but he doesn't wear a coat, what will he do?
• Below: Wrapped up for winter walks along the canal, Clarissa wears a Gloverall duffel coat, GBP147.50; N+L ribbed polo-neck sweater, GBP47.99; Oasis wool-mix stirrup pants, GBP39.99; Russell & Bromley slip-on shoes, GBP89.50.
• Masquerading as a Rogue Trader of reasonable success, Jaq wore a pleated frock coat with silver epaulettes and baggy crimson breeches tucked into short white calf boots.
• No, ten, for a girl was also present, standing just beyond Marcus, a gipsy-like girl with fuzzy dark hair, wearing a much creased coat and skirt of light-brown cotton and a flowery blouse.
• I've seen a lot of people up town wearing that coat, but they were all much older.
• -- The scarlet coat started as a uniform for the hunt staff (paid professionals) in the eighteenth century to distinguish them from the gentlemen riders who wore coats of all colours then.
• So Lee did all the shopping herself, wearing her fur coat and her black Russian-looking hat.
• On arrival at the station, Mr Tomlinson saw a man about 512;ft tall wearing a dark coat and a soft trilby hat.
• Middle-aged, thick-set, wearing a black coat and hat."
• The woman, wearing a camel coat, was discovered on the A167 at about 7pm on Saturday between the Reg Vardy garage and Croft.

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• On old windows, wear a simple dust mask to avoid inhaling dust containing lead.
• As I said she wore a mask, and a rich black cloak with white lambswool trimmings.
• Anthony McDonald, 29, of Deanston Road, Shawlands, Glasgow, admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland, Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, and attempting to rob him on 20 January.
• Was he wearing a mask?
• And nobody knew anything about spores or farmer's lung or an Everybody are very conscious and they wear masks when they're feeding hay now.
• Each wore a different animal mask; goats, pigs, horses, many unrecognizable but all hideous, grinning and mocking beasts.
• "They disable the alarm, use a glass-cutter to get in, don't leave any prints behind and wear masks in case they're spotted.
• Sir, if that was my master, why was he wearing a mask over his face?
• Mr Jain, the opposition candidate campaign manager and a leading Indian economist, said that gangs of Congress I supporters, sometimes accompanied by non criminals and wearing masks, had attacked polling stations in 70 of the 150 in Amethi and carried away ballot boxes or stuff them with bogus votes.
• Yeah, did you wear a mask?

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• But she put it up here, I think probably to make it easier, I mean if anyone's had, I don't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts, or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie, you're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby's neck at the same time, if you wear a long skirt.
• His face was rouged and he wore voluminous skirts covered in electric light bulbs -- powered by a huge battery strapped to a leg.
• The nymph wore an encumbering baroque skirt and a headdress with tall feathers.
• She tends to wear full denim skirts with lace borders and her hair falls over her face while she plays.
• "With your average white guitar band, they go on the road, they get pissed, they f-- anything that wears a skirt and that appears interesting, so you write about it.
• (Ladies wore long skirts, jackets and hats).
• Almost all wore skirts, make up and appeared to have had their hair done especially for the benefit of the cameras.
• She is wearing a long fitted skirt of khaki.
• The first intake of women was in 1915; they had to wear their own skirts but were provided with a 34;-length coat and a round hat.
• I only said that to annoy her as Fenella was leaning over the staircase banister to fix some tinsel with double-sided tape and one more inch and she needn't have bothered wearing a skirt at all.

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• The minister wore his gown, which was scarlet, denoting a Doctorate of Divinity, and bands.
• a "wobbly voice" (the woman was drunk) -- still wearing her dressing gown though it was past four o'clock... she wasn't wearing much;
• He was wearing his black dressing gown again.
• Elinor was wearing an Empire-line gown in the hope of seeing Napoleon.
• Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth.
• In her white hospital gown -- I'm wearing a gown.
• "There's a terrible self-consciousness at being a new student in a hall of residence, hearing the clattering dinner plates, going into the dining room and not knowing anybody, then suddenly realising (as happens to the heroine, Laura, in the novel) that one's not wearing a gown and everyone else is.
• Admissions to the 17-bed ward have been halted and nurses have been ordered to wear special disposable gowns in the hope of preventing the infection spreading throughout the 1,000-bed hospital.
• I wear my surgical gown, my skintight rubber gloves.
• She herself knew she could not have made much of a showing, bulky as she was, wearing the Peter Robinson gown, let out at the seams, her state disguised only by a light scarf.

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• It's wearing a wig innit
• Did you see the bit where what should a man that wears a wig never do?
• In 1860, the last bishop to wear his wig to the House of Lords died, and his successor as Bishop of Rochester, Dr Joseph Wigram, sharply criticised the wearing of beards and moustaches by the clergy.
• She wears a gigantic wig decorated with feathers and red bows, the shape of which echoes that of the wide skirt.
• Alan from Derby says, I wonder why wearing a wig is any worse than a woman wearing make-up.
• These guys wanna wear wigs, they feel good with it, let 'em do it, who tells you what you gotta eat, where
• I love hats, headbands and scarves: I also wear wigs and pieces
• I wore a polyester-type wig like a naff perm and I looked quite hideous."
• His "reformist" policy of strict economy and taxation of the privileged orders was strenuously resisted by representatives of the ancien regime , lead by Eguia, who wore an eighteenth-century wig.
• The cops think I'm the right build and they suspect gorilla man wears a wig and false moustache sometimes and maybe false teeth too.

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• Tom will be wearing running shorts and vest woven by himself on Sekers Jacquard Looms, using special colours and with the Sekers name across the front.
• He was wearing shorts and an open-necked shirt, and his limbs were firm with muscle and suntanned.
• He wore those new shorts
• Most of the summer I wear shorts to work etc.
• Wearing her navy shorts and a jade-green polo shirt, she felt cool and fresh.
• That infamous attire strangling his glorious body -- really a pastiche of desirability -- inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts.
• For instance, Pauline described how casual dress was more acceptable in the relatively secluded environment of a laboratory where she could wear shorts, but not when she had a visible management task.
• He wore shorts and a T-shirt that revealed well-muscled legs and arms and a strong neck that belied the grizzled hair.
• The airport at Singapore is like any other except that it is filled with white men wearing long shorts.
• However, my enjoyment in witnessing this rejuvenated Athletico is spoilt by the fact that Terry Wade has so far persisted in wearing white shorts whilst the rest of his team mates wear the customary black.

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• He was wearing a red ski balaclava, a dark cotton jacket and tracksuit bottoms.
• During their getaway, the men wearing balaclavas and armed with shotguns hijacked 6 cars, crashing into a lorry at one point.
• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue, Baillieston, where the attack happened, said the two men, who were both wearing balaclavas, hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van's windows, giving the two occupants only seconds to get out before it was engulfed.
• Later on Saturday two men wearing balaclavas, one armed with a hatchet, entered The Chip Shop at Highcraig Road, Johnstone, threatened the 27-year-old owner and his 42-year-old female assistant.
• The three men, wearing balaclavas, reversed the Ford Sierra, which had been stolen from Huntington, through the doors.
• Bunny, wearing a knitted Balaclava and carrying a clip board, called out commands to the chief electrician in a voice muffled with pain.
• The offender entered the premises wearing a balaclava and told the sub-postmaster to open the safe.
• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston, where the attack happened said the two men, both wearing balaclavas, hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van's windows.
• Dressed in black and wearing a balaclava, he tried to force his way into the car, but the doors were locked.
• The man, who was wearing a black balaclava tried to pull the boy to the ground, but he managed to struggle free.

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• EQUIPMENT : The Reiksguard Knights wear heavy armour and carry a shield, and ride barded Warhorses.
• Any Mobs of Goblins may wear light armour at an additional cost of +1 point per model.
• Savage Orcs do not usually wear armour although they sometimes obtain it as war booty or trade it from wandering Goblin tribes.
• And now it is all over, Tim Robbins wears the armour of the Hollywood superstar.
• OPTIONS : Rock Lobber crew may wear light armour at an additional cost of +2 points per model.
• A Halberdier wearing light armour and carrying a shield will therefore cost 7+2+1 = 10 points.
• Gauntlets, as if they wore armour.
• This special protection is lost if the Orc wears body armour.
• The Sergeants who would supervise the Scouts were wearing hybrid body armour of eagle plastrons, flexible leggings, and great shoulder plates embossed with jewelled axes, but no helmets -- for the more lightly armoured Scouts wore no covering to their heads, either.
• EQUIPMENT: The crew are armed with hand weapons and wear light armour.

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• Staff at Presto stores throughout the region wore Yellow Brick Road T-shirts and caps while a charity disco and pie and peas supper was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
• You're wearing your T-shirt?
• She was wearing a pink striped t-shirt and black jeans.
• Cover Picture: Korean seminarian wearing a T-shirt decorated with the Eucharistic logo.
• Off duty he wears white T-shirts.
• Bowler also wears a white T-shirt, an article of clothing which, if freshly boiled, Minton found irresistible.
• He wore a white T-shirt with nothing over it or under it although it was the depth of winter.
• "Size Of A Cow" was playing, the long, brown hair was aswaying, and young London was wearing washed-out T-shirts, batik waistcoats, face paint, Indian cotton shirts, Uzbeki hats, old Miss Selfridge frocks, holey leggings, black canvas trousers, plaited wristbands and DMs.
• "Nerina," said Mrs Khalid, "supposing your brother saw you wearing that T-shirt."
• You could tell he was a maverick because he's called Gavin, is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work.

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• THANK you Miss McKenna for your very nice, and sincere comments regarding medals worn with pride.
• We're in House on Road in Nottingham and reception's open from nine till six every weekday, wear your Pudsey with pride, get the bare necessities.
• The fact that he has been attacked by some elements of the Party as being "too liberal by half" is a badge he should wear with considerable pride.
• But if Lewis wants to wear the WBC crown with pride, he must set himself aside from Riddick Bowe's yellow-bellied tactics.
• From the kickoff in '68 to the final whistle in '71 the coat could be worn with pride.
• They wore with pride the badge of the timber corps; crossed axes.
• Wear the turkey with pride, Mr Nakamura, wear it with pride.
• Those blue Medau tunics were worn with pride at Stopsley High School in Luton BEDFORDSHIRE in 1970.
• Wear the turkey with pride, Mr Nakamura, wear it with pride.
• She took the kiss as a mark of approval and wore it with pride.

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• He wore a crisp white collarless shirt with the sleeves well rolled up and his baggy grey trousers were held up with a piece of string.
• She could just see by the light of the wrought-iron lamps that he was wearing a shirt with frilled sleeves, and that his hair fell about his face.
• He was wearing a leather jacket with one sleeve torn off.
• "In the 1930s a commercial traveller staying overnight at the castle informed his host the next day that he had seen an apparition during the night -- a young lady with long blonde hair wearing a gown with green silk puff sleeves.
• "The bride wore a dress with mutton sleeves...
• There you have it; myself, the captive knitter with short arms, wearing a garment with sleeves that are probably too long even for Ms Average.
• He was wearing a faded shirt with the sleeves rolled up and the fabric was damp with sweat.
• Not long after Mrs Bloomer's crusade, the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort.
• He had a grey walrus moustache and was wearing a collarless shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
• She wore a cream-coloured cotton frock with large puffed sleeves, sprigged with tiny brown flowers; her stockings were cream-coloured too and on her feet were white, barred shoes.

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• The grave-digger was unshaven and wore a big ex-army greatcoat with the collar turned up and all through the Vicar's spiel he kept looking at Doreen, the dirty old sod.
• Not only that, but that team playing at Cardiff Arms Park and wearing red shirts with green collars and redesigned feathers emblem will now be called the Dragons (and will have the dragon emblem on the right arm).
• Here he is in the bathroom, wearing his grimy raincoat with the turned-up collar.
• "I will wear a navy-blue overall with a checked collar and cuffs, and a little badge saying, "I'm Anna.
• The child had worn a purple suit with a lace collar.
• He is wearing a faded navy-blue trench-coat with a collar that curls shrunkenly upwards.
• He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him, but there was no mistaking his dimensions.
• He was the last man in England wearing a pale blue shirt with white collar and cuffs under his dark blue suit.
• She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
• If you insist on wearing a made-up tie, wear a shirt with a turned-down collar, not a wing collar.

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• XLR 8 woven multicoloured cotton jacket, GBP49.99, worn with a black skirt, GBP17.99, from Empire.
• "I'll spend quite a lot on, say, a Mondi jacket, but will wear it with cheaper skirts from Marks & Spencer and Principles.
• Vanilla silk dupion mini dress with shield of beading worn with long chiffon skirt by Louise Verity (Vanilla dress GBP530), skirt GBP380), full length veil by Louise Verity (GBP65), earrings by Van Peterson (GBP110)
• With its pretty round neck, softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers.
• She was wearing a blue costume with a slit skirt that opened when she crossed her legs.
• But this shirt could be worn with the skirt, couldn't it?
• She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
• If you are shy of creasing clothes, wear a pure linen jacket with a linen blend skirt.
• After a reception at Lythe Hill Hotel, the bride and bridegroom left for a honeymoon in Southern Ireland, the bride wearing a lavender-coloured wool jacket with cream skirt, shirt and matching shoes.
• She was wearing a mulberry-coloured suit with a straight skirt and a short jacket.

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• The man wore an old grey suit with a white shirt and no tie.
• As a rule, a striped tie should never be worn with a striped shirt, although Paul Smith frequently breaks that one with gusto.
• Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes.
• Miss Selfridge in Church Street came up with a Western casual outfit comprising leather ranchero jeans and waistcoat, worn with a denim type shirt and white body, and a sparkly short chemise in dark green sequins.
• His voice had the rounded vowels of a public-school education, and his well-cut, tropical-weight putty-coloured suit was worn with a Sea Island cotton shirt and an Hermes tie.
• She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties' version of casual wear; but, of course, when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt, detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand.
• Worn with crisp white shirts under loosely tailored jackets, in classic shades of navy, white and neutral, these are the creases to bare.
• They had sort of er er rather pretty blue er suits they used to wear with white shirts and red ties.
• He wore dark trousers with a light cotton shirt.
• Mark and Alexander, both nephews of the bridal couple, wore seersucker suits with cream silk shirts, and carried ring cushions.

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• One wears a blue boiler suit with a white logo.
• The group -- which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research, the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit -- is looking for sponsors, and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them.
• Later, when we were helping William take the Jet Ski out of the water, some very loud people -- all wearing black leather jackets with BMW logos -- arrived with a gleaming black Range Rover and a big black ski boat.
• Boardman is shown wearing a duvet with the logo in one of the expedition photographs.
• One wears a blue boiler suit with a white logo.
• Boardman is shown wearing a duvet with the logo in one of the expedition photographs.

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• Being higher than the policemen on the ground, I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up.
• She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood, black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels.
• No shots were fired by the robber who was white, 6ft tall and wore a blue duffle coat with the hood up and a balaclava, gloves, light-blue trousers and white trainers.
• Three of the youths, aged 16-20, wore black duffel coats with the hoods pulled up to hide their faces.
• He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.

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• She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama's flat.
• He marched past Jean; he had made no attempt to dress for the occasion and wore a grey-green Harris tweed jacket with bone buttons and light green polyester trousers.
• Crilly wears a smart blue shirt with the buttons done to the neck and a pair of Italian trousers stolen from a shop in Covent Garden.
• She wore a naval greatcoat with brass buttons and some sort of goggles on her head.
• Baldoni was a pudgy, balding man wearing a blue blazer with five silver buttons, a canary-yellow pullover and a red tie.
• How can I go out and pursue a love-affair wearing a shirt with no buttons on it!
• She was wearing peach silk camiknickers with tiny pearl buttons and trimmed with peach lace.

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• She wore a smart blue costume with a tiny hat tilted over one eye.
• The velvet ones are the ultimate show-stoppers and best worn with a top hat, a velvet choker... and not much else.
• Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper's.
• Real supermodels do not have tearful mothers, but then real supermodels know the difference between a full turn and a Paris turn and would never need to be told to wear black gloves with a black hat or to stand up straight instead of slouching.
• In the Enclosure ladies will wear formal day dress with hat which must cover the crown of the head.
• Gentlemen will wear morning dress with top hat, or service dress.
• Wear it with a hat and a sunshine smile!
• Especially in recession cos ladies think better to have a nice navy cardigan I can wear with this hat .

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• The first time I wore jeans I didn't dare wear them with a sweater.
• He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
• There are tight, slashed sheaths, short or long, and for the truly grand occasion in draughty manors or chateaux the Nineties balldress has a huge satin skirt, worn with a soft cashmere sweater or a tight ribbed lurex cardigan.
• He was wearing a grey suit with a light polo-neck sweater which made him look younger and at the same time more intimidating than he had the day before.
• He was wearing jeans with a dirty sweater and thought no one would know he was a policeman.

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• He had had his hair cut short -- not a crop, more like a soldier would have it -- and he wore a suit with a union jack tie left over from his brief mod-revival period.
• He listens to early 70's progressive rock, not contemporary rap music -- and he wears a denim shirt with a tie -- the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique.
• His taste was individual: he had a pink suit and matching overcoat, both of thick wool, that cost him 3000 Marks (the fee for a three-act ballet); they were worn with an orange tie.
• Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the suit evolved into styles which survive, if at all, only as formal dress -- the evening tailcoat now worn with white tie, the morning coat often used at formal weddings, and the rarely seen frock coat.
• Driving one of those along one of them highways wearing a drape suit with no tie, like Richard Widmark, with the radio on real loud listening to Benny Goodman.
• Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie.
• Several delegates turned up to the banquet wearing dinner jackets with camouflage bow ties and cummerbunds.

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• But by 1786 he was given carte blanche in his official dress and so adopted a long double-breasted frock coat of dark green material, worn with a wide white cravat and striped trousers.
• He wore a silk shirt with a cravat tucked in round his thin neck, and elegantly uncrumpled linen trousers.
• At first the collars stood vertically, but for more comfort, the front edges were turned down to form wing collars, and were worn with simpler cravats.

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• "Here in the South of France," she told Moira, "a lot of baggy blouses are being worn with jeans... which reminds me!
• Worn with jeans the all-in-one looks as though you're wearing a regular vest.
• Made in machine-washable 50% cotton, 50% polyester mix, it looks good worn with jeans or as a beach cover-up.
• The early morning sun was already gathering heat as they left the ship behind, anchored in the now-distant bay below, and she was glad she had chosen to wear the thin jade silk blouse with her white jeans.
• If you buy a suit for a friend's wedding, could you wear the jacket with jeans or plain twill pants?

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• She might not be beautiful, but she wore her clothes with typical French panache.
• Her long hair, shining gold, was swept back and caught at the nape of her neck with a bow, make-up, expertly applied, accentuated the classically beautiful lines of her face, and she wore her well-cut suit with all the panache that was expected of her.
• Although they were too short in the arm so that his lean wrists protruded like those of an overgrown schoolboy, he wore them with a certain panache, as if this unorthodox working garb, so different from the regulation white coats of the rest of the Laboratory staff, symbolised that unique blend of scientific skill, experience and flair which distinguishes the good Document Examiner.

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• Well they wear them with these leggings don't they?
• Yeah but can you wear them with tight leggings on?
• I wear a greenish Barbour jacket with tight op-art leggings.

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• You wouldn't wear the same jewellery with a jog suit as with a city suit, would you?
• But he's gotta have shoes that cos, that he can wear with the suit and wear to school, cos he needs that school shoes, I saw the shirt and the tie.
• She'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door, which didn't surprise me, by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers (nobody wears trainers with a suit any more).
• Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits, though you couldn't see them when the top button was done up.
• American persons who wear training shoes with suits and fur coats cannot be taken seriously.
• Say wear those, cos that's what she was gonna wear Christmas Day with her shell suit, I thought

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• She was a large woman, wearing a blue cotton dress with two woollen cardigans, one white, and one red, on top of each other, although the weather was still hot.
• Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer, a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid.
• Jane surprised Juliana by pointing her towards leggings and tapered trousers worn with outsized cardigans and sweaters.

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• She wore a light grey dress with matching tights and shoes, and an amethyst-coloured cardigan in cashmere to match the colour of the long nails on her pale hands.
• If you wear short skirts with opaque tights and clumpy shoes, that's a slightly different look.
• I was not from a religious background, and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto!

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• The stage costumes were ornate, the hemline above the knee and worn with knickers massed with frills so that no outline of the leg could be seen.
• It was the hand of a child who goes to dancing class and wears frilled petticoats with knickers to match.
• My first year at Grange Hill, right, you know when I used to wear boxer shorts with no knickers on underneath?

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• "Why do all foreigners think we wear those damned silly hats with corks?"
• "No, I did not wear a hat with corks!" he refuted disgustedly.
• " Wear a hat with corks, did you?" she teased naughtily.

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• Because it is impossible to use a shield while swinging a halberd this trooper wears a substantial suit of armour to protect him.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Aldebrand wears a suit of heavy armour and rides an armoured Warhorse.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Magnus wears a suit of heavy armour with shield and carries a sword.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : The Emperor wears a suit of heavy armour and carries a sword.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Grom wears a suit of light armour, and is armed with the huge Axe of Grom.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Valmir wears a suit of heavy armour and rides an armoured Warhorse.
• I played Knights with my brothers and sisters, wearing a suit of plastic armour and a helmet with a visor.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Boris wears a suit of heavy armour and carries a shield.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Ludwig wears a suit of heavy armour.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Azhag wears a suit of light armour and carries a shield.

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• Then there, a lot of wearing lots of clothing
• "Surely someone wearing some sort of protective clothing, breathing apparatus, that sort of thing, could get close enough to get a sample?"
• This firm wears an American suit of clothing.
• always wear several layers of light clothing, rather than one layer of heavy clothing
• The self is a muffled self: it wears a suit of protective clothing.
• They are of different ages and wear a variety of clothing.
• I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white, numbed fingers.
• What made it even more confusing was that Toby wore two sorts of female clothing, he seemed to want to pretend to be two different types of women, so poor Kate never knew from one night to the next whether she would find herself in bed with a 1930s lascivious, black-satin, sophisticated woman-of-the-world, or a demure, white-pantied, schoolgirl virgin.
• You know er personally attached to the grave, or go on a guided tour, and er, like you've got to wear certain bits of clothing, you gotta be like, you gotta be properly dressed, er, you're not allowed to eat or drink in there, there's all these things, like, you know, really
• Obviously an optimistic bachelor, unaware that, one, a Pakamac of any colour will clash with jeans, baggy jackets and Doc Martens, two, youngsters refuse to wear any kind of protective clothing on the grounds of street cred, expense and pig-headedness and, three, the clincher, they would rather emigrate than wear something bought by a parent.

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• "Ellen, she wears bits of jeans and bits of T-shirts like the rest of the group.
• He was wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, a white shirt and a black leather jacket.
• He turned quickly to the voice and there was Slater, bounding down the steps of Holborn Library, wearing a pair of one-and-a-half-legged jeans, with a shiny black shoe on one foot and a knee-length boot on the other; the jeans were cut to suit, so that one leg ended normally, in a stitched hem over the shoe, while the other leg came to a frayed stop just above the top of the boot.
• From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub.
• She was wearing a dirty old pair of jeans and blue canvas sneakers.
• And is he wearing a pair of boring old jeans?
• And he was shown wearing a pair of collosal flared jeans that left one simply astonished.
• He wore a pair of faded blue jeans and a rugby shirt.
• He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they'd never seen an iron, and a grey shirt, the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer.

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• Did you notice how their attacker with long hair seemed to crouch down and try to catch the ball every time a ball came near, Fairclough was excellent at marking him, I think they wore the same pair of shorts!
• He wore a pair of khaki shorts and a faded blue shirt, with sandals on his feet.
• Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.
• Hugh wore a pair of neat white shorts which made him look ready for tennis.
• "That's enough of that," Ross told them firmly as he threw aside the sheets, revealing the fact that he was wearing a pair of boxer shorts.
• I mean, my legs have rarely seen a Bic razor you know, I'm gonna wear a pair of shorts in the summer, I might shave 'em, but I

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• you've got to have the tourist there, it's a I find, tourists, they always wear the wrong sort of clothes.
• She was wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together, but they did.
• STAINI RACK NUSVIODON Experiencing Staini Rack Nuul and then realizing that one must continue in the same outworn fashion because the alternatives are too frightening, or because one is too weak to change; wearing a suit of clothes at which one sees strangers looking askance
• She had simply worn a lot of clothes, and kept moving.
• He wore the police issue of corduroy clothes and heavy clogs, but when he saw Joe watching him he struck a pose, one hand on his hip and the little finger of the other crooked genteelly beside the iron cup.
• You resist change (ie travel the same way to work, read the same newspaper, wear the same sort of clothes, have fixed routines/habits, stick to familiar foods, stick to the same circle of friends).
• People who played golf did, of course, and rich people, but the majority of people wore the same sort of clothes all the time.
• When eventually he returned to the hotel, wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own, Minton asked where he had been.
• They're all wearing the same sort of clothes -- black, with these black hats -- even the girls.
• The country women are wearing the sort of clothes my grandmother wore in the 1920s and 1930s, pinafores tied over rid-calf-length frocks, topped with cardigan and headscarf.

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• He was wearing a dressing gown of black silk with purple facings, drinking chocolate from a white porcelain cup.
• Fei Yen had dressed quite simply, in a peach ch'i p'ao, over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk, decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly.
• Slender and demure, she wore a simple ao dai of brown silk, and the serene beauty of her delicate golden face belied her years.
• Tamar was lying on one of the twin beds wearing a pair of silk lounging pyjamas.
• He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size.
• A generously proportioned blonde, she wore a blouse of thin white silk with outrageous decolletage and virtually nothing underneath.
• She was ready for Stephen promptly at eleven, wearing a summer dress of wild silk in a rich pink-peach colour.

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• I now wear a pair of baggy trousers tied with a string at the waist such as the Punjabi peasant women wear, and their kind of knee-length shirt.
• He was wearing a pair of crumpled pyjama trousers, tied at the waist with a white cord.
• He was wearing a pair of old baggy trousers, a dirty white singlet and a large and handsome red silk cravat fastened round his neck.
• They had never had an argument, apart from one occasion in 1956, when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers.
• She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers, which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat, and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt, neither of which sported designer labels.
• He was wearing a pair of his customary white trousers and a plain white shirt, rolled back to the elbows, with a black belt at his waist and a pair of shiny black shoes.

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• To top things off, she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go, and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like.
• After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park, his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses.
• The dead woman was wearing a pair of sunglasses.

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• Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained.
• Stuart was wearing the trousers of his work suit, but he'd changed his shirt, and he had an apron over the top.
• He wears the kind of exaggerated Giorgio Armani suits which never quite blended into the Govan landscape.
• He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit, pinstriped shirt, spotted tie and Gucci shoes; or perhaps he has been home and changed, and is now sporting yellow cords, a maroon V-necked jersey, and highly polished brown brogues.
• Although women may wear versions of the male suit they feel that they must not ape male styles of behaviour, but have to find some way of being feminine and demand respect.
• I wear a lot of suits... [with]... a nice blouse or a sweater.

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• "whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt".
• whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt.
• "whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt".
• To find out more about the fitting and wearing of seat belts and road safety in general, please contact your Road Safety Officer through your local Council, or, in Scotland, through your Regional Council offices.
• "requiring a seat belt" Means per regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles ( wearing of Seat Belts) Regulation 1982: "The classes of vehicle mentioned in regulation 4 are (a) a vehicle to which Regulation 46 of the Construction and Use Regulations applies (see later); and (b) a vehicle which is equipped with anchorage points and seat belts and to which that Regulation would apply if it were not for the circumstances that the vehicle --

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• Not even poverty, for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes -- except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to GBP18 a week -- by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled "artisan", who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work, and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his, still less his family's, next meal was to come from.
• I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West -- from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats, down to modern trainers on their feet.
• The place seems to enshrine for the Swiss their national ideals from the earliest days of the Confederation onward, and there is an element of pilgrimage attendant on the crowds of citizens from all parts of the country, wearing many varieties of national costume, who come here, ferried across from Brunnen by relays of lake steamers, to join in the observations of the day, commemorating the solemn oath of 1307 which confirmed the earlier League Covenant of 1291 to defend inherited liberties.
• He was wearing some sort of outlandish costume and his lips were rouged.

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• They all wore a great deal of jewellery.
• Do not wear lots of obvious jewellery when you are out.
• If you can wear 500lbs of jewellery
• She doesn't wear a lot of jewellery, she is an active working lady -- and of course, she is a princess.

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• He was wearing a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles.
• Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles.
• He was in his late twenties with pale skin, prematurely thinning hair and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles which made him look studious.

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• Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth.
• He wore a heavy cloak of dark cloth that came down to his ankles.
• He peered narrowly to his left, and the hoardings thrust their temptations at him, a long giant suntanned woman wearing three scraps of cloth, an enormous car made out of sunset, a cigarette several times as long as he was tall.
• 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.

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• This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years -- one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs!
• She wore the sort of black fishnet stockings that used to feature largely in fifties' films involving French tarts.
• When obliged to venture out, he covered himself with a Morocco robe and mask, and wore six pairs of stockings along with several fur hats.

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• She wore a kind of schoolkid outfit -- blouse and tie, cheerleader's pleated skirt, bobbysox.
• I believe that you have to be tall to wear the kind of outfits that I do.
• They diss whatever takes their fancy, while "the mole" flicks her hair and wears lots of silly outfits -- just like on photo shoots.

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• Most people will be happy with one pair of good loop-stitched socks inside their boots, but if you are used to wearing two pairs of socks, then take them with you.
• The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks.
• This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car, but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne.

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• The BMA also stated that the Department of Health recommended universal precautions: wearing of gloves for all invasive procedures.
• Best studied as loose sheets in a box wearing a pair of white gloves rather than as framed and glazed images, they explore different shades of white and frequently incorporate the artist's name.
• Take care when handling Primula obconica or wear a pair of cotton gloves to avoid any possible skin rash.

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• We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes.
• Wearing specific copies of uniforms also gives children the opportunity to try out occupational roles, such as astronauts, or nurses as well as fancy roles like robots, or witches.
• They would automatically be included in the conditions of service including wearing of uniforms and opportunities for promotion.

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• He wore a pair of grey shoes, baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo.
• A place that people come up and give you double your washing powder, where, when you wear a certain pair of shoes, your sports performance will reach the dizzy heights of your professional heroes, where everyone has perfect teeth.
• He's wearing a pair of slick-soled shiny leather shoes.
• HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning, by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops.

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• He went on to describe how Jean-Claude had starved himself, how much weight he had lost and in what condition were the nerves he wore on his sleeve.
• In all of these circumstances women can wear their feminist hearts on their sleeves and the world will continue much the same.
• Jarman does not so much wear his homosexuality on his sleeve as brandish it like a day-glo banner.
• While most of her peers wear their hearts on their sleeves and parade their differences by churning out variations on the boss sound of the day, this Boston-based denizen sculpts seemingly light and sweet guitar-pop tunes that have spikes of anger and disenchantment buried deep inside them.
• A faith worn on the sleeve, to be seen and not hidden; a faith that touches every detail of life; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate; a faith that earthquakes, terrorists, cholera, drought, power cuts, water shortages, poverty and bad housing will never shake.
• Rather than wear your heart on your sleeve, you keep it under your hat.
• "It wasn't a great trial to us and we didn't sit sobbing in a comer about it," she says although other pupils remember Diana as a "private and controlled" teenager who did not wear her emotions on her sleeve.
• (E) Interesting insignia worn on right sleeve of desert combat suit by a lance-corporal of 32nd Armd.
• In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars, as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings: they should play to the cameras, should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves, and should never make the mistake of reading their questions.
• Wear a gold heart on your sleeve in support of the Variety Club of Great Britain's appeal for sick and under-privileged children.

wrist_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• It's a small stretchy band, normally worn on the wrist, with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office, that is, desk or radiator but not the computer.
• The second mugger was black, taller than his accomplice and stocky wearing a bracelet on his wrist.
• You will need to wear a watch to time the starts; this should be worn on the wrist of your right hand, with the face on the inside, so that in the final seconds of a frantic starboard tack start it can easily be read whilst in the sailing position.
• He wore a steel bracelet on his wrist -- something to do with being a Sikh, Nutty understood, with rain, and she had Midnight to ride.
• He wore a gold watch on his wrist; fine, gold hairs curled over the white, nylon strap.
• The Polar Pacer's large face display is worn on the wrist like a watch.
• They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist.
• In her coffin she wore his photograph on her wrist, above Prince Albert's dressing-gown and other treasured souvenirs.
• He was wearing a pale-blue safari-style jacket, belted at the last hole, short-sleeved to display the diamond-faced gold Rolex worn on one beefy wrist.

finger_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• It was all much as it had been the first time, only evening instead of morning; and Emily stood by herself as before, and now he knew why, wearing his ring on another finger.
• now it is worn on the third finger of the left hand where a vein of love was believed to run straight to the heart.
• The scruffy snatcher, who wore a ring on every finger, forced her way into the house after Nicola answered the door.
• This band of gold probably originates from Egypt, where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger.
• 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.
• But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand.
• Each member of the family had his or her picture taken at least once: there, recorded for posterity, is father Benjamin, leaning back comfortably in a chair just as he had done when sitting for Mr. Adkin all those years before, still wearing his favourite ring on the little finger of his right hand.
• Jean Campbell, in 1817, was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order, eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men, one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman, and had left home.
• There was a thin silver ring of the type small girls wear on the fourth finger.
• Ben, watching him, saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand.

head_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• (c) What was Lenin wearing on his head?
• As Sabra, a woman in her forties, told me "If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me, but at work I can't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines, so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house -- something is needed to save one's Izzat".
• I had found out that her name was Miss Vulcan and I gave her this information as well as telling her that Miss Vulcan had a brother named Freddie who visited her and that he was a little old man who wore a black cap on his head and sported a goatee beard.
• There are people who never leave home without one, while others feel ridiculous wearing something on their head.
• In the adjoining wall, strangely enough, there was a window with a curtain across it, so we pulled this aside to look and there were all these men dancing and singing and wearing horns on their heads.
• The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head, the woman a book on hers, where they cannot be used, and the monk looks on with indifference.
• I felt pretty silly wearing a plastic walnut shell on my head.
• The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie, or swung by one arm, or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head.
• "Only if I wore it on my head."
• He normally never wears anything on his head --" He broke off as Buckmaster reappeared in the doorway.

Sundays_NP0----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• But he was writing from a world in which Riva only meant coastline and Best was something worn on Sundays.
• Rather, she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps (most likely) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom, chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays.
• In 1571 there was a Law "Every male person not possessed of 20 Marks rental should wear on Sundays and Holy Days when not on travell a wooden knit cap on pain of forfeiting 3s. 4d. a day."
• A good friend of mine, in the same set for physics and chemistry, grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars, which we have to wear on Sundays, and made them into little points."

clothing_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time.
• Nick's association with Freixenet, which will see him wearing the Freixenet logo on his tennis clothing throughout 1992, enhances that involvement.
• The Cagots lived a peculiar life outside society, without rights but exempt from taxes, wearing a badge on their clothing to indicate their standing, forbidden to walk barefoot, unable to hear mass with their fellow Christians.
• Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians, who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries, coral, scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries, later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers, by the twelfth dynasty.
• The same problem arises where a person is wearing an insulting emblem on his clothing.

foot_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• " If you wore iron boots on your feet, you would wear out twelve pairs of them before you found her!
• He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit, silk shirt and tie, and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet.
• I like wearing sandals on me feet,
• Barbara Bush was cosy and Mumsy with lots of grandchildren and a careless habit of wearing different coloured espadrilles on her feet; Hillary Clinton is the cool, radical feminist with an independent mind.
• The student sons and daughters of the curators wear such items on their feet and talk about Madonna and Terminator, so it's time for a rethink.
• It was impossible, from this distance, to see what he was wearing on his feet, but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes, because in his right hand he was holding a large, brown, elastic-sided boot.
• In the rest of Europe, what you wear on your feet is seen as a crystal-clear signal of your professional status.
• "Do you mean," said Robert, "those people who wear peculiar shoes on their right feet?"
• What was he wearing on his feet?
• What was she wearing on her feet?

back_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Two of the three I have to see today wear suits on their backs could buy ten grams apiece.
• Tigers stalking workers have not attacked those wearing face-masks on the back of their heads.
• He wears a brown rucksack on his back.
• The masks were introduced in 1986: it was argued that since tigers normally attack prey from behind rather than face-to-face, a mask worn on the back of the head should be a deterrent.
• He wore a handle on the back of his costume, stitched there by his hard-driven mother herself because she wasn't going to have some theatrical costumier treating her son as if he were a sequin.
• Since tigers are said usually to attack humans from the rear, Sunderbans workers have been issued with plastic face masks to be worn on the back of the head.
• They were never essential but always worn on the back of the head.
• Until now, Gemma's had to be fed through her nose, using a naso-gastric tube attached to a pack which she wears on her back for 16 hours a day.
• "Black web, red spider at the centre, worn on the back of the left hand?"
• She wasn't coming out, she like going, she wears and wears them on her back and then she's just knackered and knackered .

uniform_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news.
• The exact provenance of the "Desert Rat" formation sign as worn on uniforms is still not entirely clear, and several different wartime variants exist.
• You will now have a red, white and blue carnation -- ready to wear on your uniform.
• They reacted by inventing ways of avoiding teachers' authority, escaping from supervision and doing the things which they valued most: smoking, drinking, swearing and wearing their own variation on the school uniform.

elbow_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Various papers, duffle-coat (lacking toggles) some wear on elbows.
• In the ruins of The Hangman's Arms they would find a green canvas portmanteau, a brush-and-comb set in a plastic case and a duffle-coat (lacking toggles), some wear on elbows.
• Duffle-coat (lacking toggles) some wear on elbows.
• "And some wear on the elbows."

shoulder_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• She wore an antique brooch on one shoulder, and her hands, discreetly beringed, were folded in her lap, and one wrist had been bandaged.
• The Princess of Wales has no GCVO yet, though she was admitted to the Royal Family Order (the small ribbon brooch worn on the left shoulder) soon after her marriage (before November 1981).
• It came with the stripes he wore on his shoulder.
• Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem, that mythical beast, the Wyvern of Wessex, half dragon, half eagle, that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles?
• The one who wore on his blue shoulder flash the insignia of major's rank had shaken his hand and grinned a supercilious smile.
• Bde. patch is worn on the right shoulder of the desert combat suit and the sand-coloured "woolly pully", partly above the badge of rank on the latter.

occasion_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion.
• Norms of dress provide guidelines for what to wear on particular occasions.
• They deteriorated with time, and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions.
• The complex folds introduced by Augustus were simplified in succeeding centuries, and eventually the toga was evidently only worn on formal occasions.
• Some of the guests during the Mayor's dinner that night at the Guildhall enquired after the history of the Order of the Peacock (Third Class), and although it gave Gerald some considerable satisfaction to explain how he had come by the distinction and indeed the Queen's permission to wear it on official occasions, he felt one or two of his colleagues had been less than awed by the tarnished peacock.
• He requested permission to be allowed to wear his new award on those occasions when it stipulated on the bottom right-hand corner of invitation cards that decorations and medals should be worn.

shirt_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The only incongruous note was a cheap round badge, enamelled in red and yellow, that he wore on his shirt, which bore the legend "Just Say No!".
• They are paid vast amounts of cash, to wear a little sticky label on their shirts; even getting a hair cut is big money.
• Middlesex's players will wear the Lucozade logo on their shirts, although their president Denis Compton was the original "Brylcreem Boy" in the 1950s.
• TSB's public affairs manager Laura O'Connell had a straight answer for the choice of a fictional team to wear the TSB logo on their shirts.

night_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• I'd wear my shopping trophies on Saturday night, and over the next week...
• The starting point is really what you wear on the night.
• Christian Lacroix's C'est la Vie dress: Sylvie Guillem wore it on the night
• It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie's jackets, but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder, which those trying to clear his name now want released.
• "I won't tell anyone," said Gabriel, "but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this."
• During this period Stella is in hospital as she is in labour and Stanley changes into the marriage pyjamas that he wore on his wedding night as celebration.
• I'm not at all happy about the way he washed the clothes he was wearing on Friday night."
• Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night, and in a mood that was somehow expectant.
• "No, I know he's got a navy blue one but he wasn't wearing it on Friday night."
• Her long fair hair was coiled demurely at the nape of her neck, and her nails were carefully cleansed of the scarlet polish she had worn on Saturday night.

beach_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• But the pure Marxism-Leninism of Albania's then president, the late Enver Hoxha, decreed that shorts could only be worn on the beach.
• "I daresay that girl wears a bikini on the beach, but her father will make her go veiled in Fez.
• He blushed, like a gangly adolescent Blanche once caught ogling her breasts when she wore a bikini on the beach.
• He must have worn those jeans on countless beaches and fishing trips.

face_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• "I dare say," said Constance, "that I'd wear a smile on my face if all I had to do was lie around all day and every now and then chase a bit of fluff round a dog track.
• I wear an amazed smile on my face.
• Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city -- and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems -- it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella.
• She used the same lines over and over again, wearing a fixed smile on her face.
• He wears a sad expression on his face,
• Taylor, however, is hoping that "Gazza" may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far.
• However, the conditional statement wears its meaning on its face, as much as any statement does.
• Brilliant colours are harder to wear on the face and require some circumspection in their application.

stage_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The frontman was an intriguing-sounding character called Tony Dardis who wore a white suit on stage and whom Gedge refers to as "Mr Entertainment".
• I have to wear make-up on stage but I prefer to let my skin breathe and just wear the minimum
• At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage: "wet white" was used for the Girls' legs.
• Top price at the pop memorabilia sale was GBP4,100 for a crucifix pendant Madonna wore on stage.
• They give us and Perry Farrell (who's God in these parts) "HIPS LIPS TITS POWER" T-shirts which we duly wear on stage.
• I have to wear make-up on stage or on photo shoots.

slope_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• But lots of people travel in the snow-washed variety -- especially cocky skiers who say they wear denim on the slopes because they never fall over.
• two, two shirts for wearing on the slopes, one pair, one pair for wearing in the evening, I've got one shirt to go in and the one I'm wearing as I, as I go out
• I would really like to wear some fashionable clothes on the slopes but haven't got a clue where to start looking.

string_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger, although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck, or simply reserved for a leisured elite.
• Frescoes show that the seals were worn on string or leather thongs looped round the owner's neck or wrist.
• The oldest of the fishermen, grey of head and wearing his false teeth on a string round his neck, spat in the sand and said, "Trent, boy, you take them men, you make damn sure them pay cash money."

arm_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Black or grey trousers were worn on duties other than full dress parades, and a brassard showing a Union Jack with a swastika superimposed was worn on the left arm in conjunction with the uniform.
• Already, she wore on her arms all the jewellery she could ever have dreamed of.
• The rings were used in a variety of ways: some were worn on the arm or wrist; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items; a third use was as a girdle hanger.
• You wear it on your arm, and it releases a measured dosage of nicotine extract throughout the day which really does take away the desire to smoke.
• Stella had changed into slacks and overall to keep her costume clean for the curtain call, but still wore a heavy gilt bracelet on her arm.

commuting_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• In addition, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists could include an ETA logo and would be particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.
• If NFC are keen on publicity, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists are particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.
• In addition, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists could include an EIG logo and would be particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.

likes_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• His clothes, originally worn by Lauren Bacall, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, were given a great boost recently when worn by the likes of Madonna and Deee-Lite.
• You are wearing a cloak such as was worn every day by the likes of your mama, your grandmama and yourself.
• Worn by the likes of Seal, Naomi Campbell and Lenny Kravitz, it uses precious stones, silver and gold in a tasteful way.

man_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• "Identical rings, one worn by a man in a painting done two hundred years ago, another worn by a man photographed less than six months ago.
• Jewellery was worn by men and women.
• Because, as her heart started to thunder beneath her ribs, she realised that the last time she had seen those brown leather shoes, they were being worn by a man -- in Prague!
• "No, it's a lady's eternity ring, red gold, Victorian, although I suppose it could be worn by a man, on his little finger.
• These tabarri , worn by most men in the region, kept the body and the hands very warm.
• A cheeky innocence was imparted to the ruined photo by Nicola's prominent front teeth: her vanity and the ambition to succeed in television must have made her pay later for cosmetic dental work, concluded Dexter, who had an acute eye for wigs worn by men and corsets by women.
• It was identical to the one worn by the man in the photo she had back at the hotel.
• "Identical rings, one worn by a man in a painting done two hundred years ago, another worn by a man photographed less than six months ago.
• In the arctic conditions of the forest margin and tundra, pullover parkas of deerskin, along with deerskin boots and fur caps, were worn by Nenets men, while women wore long wrap-over fur coats.
• Traditionally a signet ring, with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals, was the only jewellery worn by a man.

woman_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• In Ethiopia, as in India, the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy, but is in fact a key part of it, producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women.
• Another important gold item is a body chain of a type worn by wealthy women: the double chain passed around the neck then under the breasts and round the back, secured by decorative medallions at the centre front and back.
• Ethnology shows that girdles of cowrie shells were worn by Tibetan women as charms against barrenness.
• This prediction comes from Guerlain, whose perfumes have been worn by beautiful women such as Catherine Deneuve, Joan Collins and Ursula Andress.
• His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloe in being soft, rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons.
• The room reeked of the cheap perfume worn by the blowzy woman who was vacating it as we arrived.
• She was making serwal -- pantaloons, the jodhpur-like underpants worn by the women and children which tie at the waist, fasten at the ankle and are loose, cool and comfortable.
• I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute, a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties, and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion; it is a fairly fashionable dress, but it is adapted for real life, for day to day life, for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants, but had to do the running of the household herself.
• You know, the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves.

sex_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• A dress can be worn with clumpy men's shoes; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable, roomy and worn by either sex; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down, such as "no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women".
• From the various sizes of key rings found, and the fact that some are quite delicate others heavy duty, it is likely that they were worn by both sexes.
• They ranged from poor orphans in modest white dresses ( worn by both sexes) to sailor-suited scions of white-collar families and rich little Lord Fauntleroys.

Charles_NP0----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• The Iron Crown of Lombardy worn by Charles after his conquest of Desiderius.
• The Civil War travelling exhibition of arms and armour opens at the Town Docks Museum on 11 April where visitors can see the armour worn by the future Charles II at "the refusal".
• One of her designs is for a lady's version of the Norfolk jacket, which has been worn by Prince Charles on Sandringham shoots.

occasion_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion, she certainly had no place in this night of Emily's triumph.
• J.B. Yes, and I do wear it for occasions like that.
• Although I do admit to owning a bathrobe with my initials on it -- and wearing green glasses for occasions when I want to draw attention to myself.
• With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion.
• Tajik women (left) wear jewellery for important occasions.
• "But now Miss Kyte must leave you, or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion."
• He also wore a jewelled crown for such occasions, and a jewelled hilted sword.
• Over breakfast (no Guardian was delivered, doubtless because of the snow) she pondered the question of what clothes to wear for the occasion.
• Esau must prepare a special meal for his father, he must wear his best robes for the occasion.
• Mildred changed from her ordinary school uniform to the best robes which the girls always wore for special occasions.

rest_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• The poor thing cant walk properly anymore and may have to wear nappies for the rest of its life."
• A wound resulted in his having to wear a steel corset for the rest of his life (an extra discomfort in the tropics) and also in total deafness in one ear.
• "We'll make a proper job of this!" she declared, and putting her fist into the crown, she forced it up as high as she could push it, and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term.
• If I'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas, I'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life!
• After all, your wedding ring is something you will wear for the rest of your life.
• He decided to wear it for the rest of his life.
• What a tragedy if that son had to wear a brace for the rest of his life.

work_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• You could tell he was a maverick because he's called Gavin, is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work.
• You could tell he was a maverick because he's called Gavin, is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work.
• She had thin, brittle, permed hair, and, under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work, her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins.
• What do you wear for work?
• Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest.
• I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work; it's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously -- I like to look the part.
• She wears little make-up for work and says: "It goes back to the time when I started in the job.
• Meanwhile, staff at the Credit Card Centre paid GBP2 each to wear casual clothing for work.
• "I don't wear a great deal for work," she explained, "and I have no intention of going on air looking like a tart, so forget it."
• You could tell he was a maverick because he's called Gavin, is articulate and wears black T-shirts for work.

wedding_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• "I agree, and I intend it shall be, but what has Dana got to do with the gown you'll wear for our wedding?"
• She will undoubtedly wear a summer frock for the wedding."
• I really need some advice about what to wear for the wedding."
• It's designed by Tomasz Starzewski, who made the dress that Viscount Althorp's wife, Victoria, wore for their wedding.

age_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we haven't been able to wear for ages.
• I'm not worn no make-up for ages, 'cos me eyes seem to be like, itching all of a sudden.
• I didn't wear a short skirt for ages after that.
• I'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which haven't been worn for ages.
• Cos I'm not actually losing weight, but my clothes all feel, you know I can get into clothes I haven't worn for ages.
• It is no coincidence either that members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe appear in UK adverts for Carhartt: they've been wearing the gear for ages.

visit_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• The glamorous nightdress I'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and, instead, I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown.
• STUART RILEY, a marketing specialist at the University of Lancaster, recognised his role in industrial change when he was asked to wear a suit for factory visits.
• STUART RILEY, a marketing specialist at the University of Lancaster, recognised his role in industrial change when he was asked to wear a suit for factory visits.
• Fortunately, Miss Zeta Jones wore ordinary clothes for her visit to a victim of Motor Neurone disease.

purpose_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• Staff in high risk areas are limited to small sleeper earrings, an identity bracelet or necklace worn for medical purposes only, and a wedding ring.
• * If you work in open food areas you are only permitted to wear wedding rings without stones, sleeper earrings and identity bracelets/necklaces worn for medical purposes."
• It would be a wicked waste if it isn't worn for its proper purpose."
• Even his clothes seemed worn for a purpose, blending with the greens and browns of their surroundings.

while_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• I would like you to wear it for a while."
• Susan suspected her quarry had decided to stop wearing his own face for a while, so he could deal with his guests.
• Ain't worn condoms for a while.

day_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• "You'll be wearing it for Mayor-making day, no doubt?"
• Failure to do so was punished by being forced to wear the hated beret for a whole day in school -- for lessons, lunch, everything , a badge of shame Sally had so far managed to avoid.
• "I'll give you some cortisone cream and I want you to wear cotton gloves for a few days, then come back and see me.
• A big man, six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone, he always looked mildly untidy, and this morning, having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells.
• They'd be secondhand shoes because they've been worn for three days.
• I wore a set for nine days, without having the opportunity for a proper wash, and they were still comfortable and did not smell.
• Adam had viewed with near-incredulity his mother's preparations in the past for going on holiday, the way everything in the house seemed to get washed, the way she and his father wore their worst clothes for days beforehand because the best ones were packed, the phone calls she made, the notes she left for tradesmen.
• I could see his jeans, shirts, jerseys, everything he needed to wear for the next two days, neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh.

month_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• CLAIRE, as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again, sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months.
• More than 1,600 smokers were asked to wear an arm patch for 3 months.
• I didn't wear the lenses for six months.
• Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits, or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end, or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house, or bothered young women on the subway.
• "Now, if this young scoundrel has the moral fibre to wear this apparatus for one month, I can guarantee he'll be dancing the polka with the best of them."

always_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• But he is easy to find, for he always wears a blue suit."
• Rildia Bee is easy to spot from any distance because she always wears floor-length dresses of silk brocade and a mink stole -- which, air-conditioning or otherwise, is not necessarily the obvious choice of outfit in Fort Worth.
• "As a child I always wore a jet necklace and cross," recalls Mabel McMillan.
• She had thin, brittle, permed hair, and, under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work, her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins.
• She always wears a frown
• I can't always wear the same outfit!
• Always wear a cap or hat, as a very large proportion of your body heat is lost through the top of the head.
• "He always wore a red knitted jumper and jeans bought from Tesco's," she says.
• The dummy appears, like a lost boy from another world, pushed from pillar to post, always wearing the same inscrutable smile, an innocent victim of other people's desires.
• What university-educated person cannot recall at least one professor who always wore corduroys?

still_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• He was still wearing the same clothes he'd worn that afternoon, and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening, and who with.
• The blood had been washed from his face and body, and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family, who, despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church.
• He was still wearing summer clothes and, once back in his room again, the only heat was regulated by how much a tenant could afford to put into the meter -- and Freddie was abysmally short of cash.
• It is clear that Sharon and Tracy were at the cutting edge of fashion even then they were still wearing 1976's Bay City Rollers outfits.
• He still wore his hair in a pony-tail, complete with ribbon, and wore an ankh on a chain around his neck, but beneath the veneer of a harmless flower-child gone to seed he was as acquisitive as a bower-bird.
• And what pride she had, that transcended her meagre purse and the threadbare pelisse that so little kept out the winter cold that she still wore it inside the house, and had been obliged to come down from her room to seek a little warmth from the dying fire.
• That was what the men on the next bench were doing; they still wore their overcoats, rough shabby clothes bundled round them, like rolls of carpet stacked and tied with twine.
• Patrick stood by his window, fully dressed, but still wearing his dressing gown, watching an elegantly dressed meddle-aged couple alight from a gleaning Rolls Royce.
• Later I ask if the years of drug abuse -- he made the lost classic "On The Beach" using honey slides (lumps of hashish melted in honey), he almost didn't appear in The Band's Last Waltz movie because there was a massive, subsequently disguised, lump of cocaine hanging from his left nostril -- are still wearing heavy on him.
• Some still wore knee breeches, but tightly-fitting pantaloons buttoned round the ankle over the white silk socks were permitted.

proudly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Vi looked at the medal ribbons, proudly worn on the shabby jacket.
• For example, the manager may find it hard to understand how Harry (say), who proudly wears the company's 35 years' service badge, can walk out with his work group in an industrial dispute.
• They would be marshalled back to their digs, proudly wearing their uniforms.
• He describes his other grandmother as "a wee frail woman" in a mob cap, smoking a long clay pipe and "stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap", while her railwayman husband also "had a great liking for me, and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for "whiteheaded Benny", he did it, Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard", a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school, "swanking" with it hung across my chest."
• MODEL Giovanna Fanelli proudly wears her sash after winning the title of Italy's Miss Lovely Legs.
• We had half-listened to the censored news bulletins and seen young men home on leave, proudly wearing their uniform.
• Today's scouts proudly wear cooking and computer badges as well as the more traditional activities of camping and sports.
• In addition, the conglomerate label that Pearson proudly wears does not at present find particular favour with institutional investors.
• When Eva was five the girls had their photograph taken with Eva proudly wearing "a very nice dress with some smocking across it", which Joyce had made by hand.
• Along with such famous names as Rolls Royce, Cartier, Jaguar and Aspreys, Stoddard Carpets Ltd., were represented by their directors, of which the Chairman and two others proudly wore their kilts.

never_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• "It's never been worn before.
• Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before.
• I hate bright colours and never wear make-up but they would not listen.
• One was for the bridegroom's father and the other would never be worn .
• "I've never worn a waistcoat before," he said with pleasure.
• I never wore the roll-neck out there again and as the years passed I was gradually given a large wardrobe of beautiful traditional dresses, which I wore with comfort and delight, each dress reminding me of the giver.
• I've never worn these?
• It will never wear off of its own accord."
• There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn .
• She told them that apart from a white jumper she never wore the colour at all.

all_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Sue showed me those pictures you sent, but they were so small and faraway and you were all wearing those funny oil-rig hats, I couldn't really see you.
• She had had a visit from them too -- a tall young officer in that black uniform with the gleaming high boots they all wore .
• Said they're all wearing to the party we gotta go somewhere.
• "They all wore bleached Levis, Dr Martens, a short scarf tied cravat style, cropped hair.
• "Well, they all wore the tob."
• Leaning against a recumbent Henry Moore, a group of English Sloanes, lanky people, all wearing old men's panama hats regardless of sex, shared out the single bottle of champagne they had bought at the Duty Free and laughed loudly.
• Advertising was a large tatty lino-floored room crammed with people who all wore faded jeans de rigueur , with a smell of spray mount, and magic markers littered everywhere.
• Marching along the street, with boots thudding and fingers slapping (a peculiarly skinhead mannerism), all wearing the same clothes and the same haircut, the skinheads presented an image of power.
• There were at least thirty of them, all wearing identical grey clothes.
• And to her amazement she saw that they were all wearing their stetsons.

usually_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• In my own bed, yes, but then I usually wear pyjamas, but never in public."
• Freya is usually depicted wearing a magic necklace forged in the sun called Brisingamen, and a cloak made of falcon's wings.
• At any rate, when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus, I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed, willing my eyes to stay shut, but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end, and I had to open my eyes and listen.
• What do you usually wear when doing the vacuum cleaning? (please tick all that apply)
• She is usually shown wearing a religious habit (although she was never a nun) and either surrounded by or wearing garlands of roses.
• Joanna, 18, schoolgirl (left): "This dress is shorter and tighter than I usually wear ."
• what you erm usually wear ?
• Very tall, usually wearing a cap and carrying a basket on each arm, he was a real trouper to all of them.
• A lady would usually wear a long, flowing tunic, fastened at the shoulders with brooches, tied under the bust, and bloused at the waist.
• Although she was a widow, she didn't usually wear black.

underneath_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla, even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath -- "Rats Have Rights" -- was a bit of a giveaway, or maybe I was just paranoid.
• This creates a breathing space between inner clothes and the waterproof outer skin; important when only thermals are being worn underneath.
• I wouldn't know what she was wearing underneath.
• SLEEK CHIC Principles georgette shirt with beaded embroidery, GBP39.99; Knickerbox camisole ( worn underneath), GBP16.99; Bernshaw sequined crochet long skirt, about GBP150; Miss Selfridge, kitten-heeled slingbacks with elastic front, GBP29.99; Charnos Matt Satin Opaque tights, GBP5.10
• When I finally took off the overtrousers, the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry, which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction.
• "I'm going to change," and went into the bedroom; so he didn't find out what she was wearing underneath.
• It can be full-length too, or shortened to a jacket and there's a beautifully shaped polo-neck sweater to wear underneath (Pattern 2).
• What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don.
• What are you wearing underneath?"

only_AV0----------adverb----------(back to top)

• They didn't say, as the teds did, I can only wear a drape They'd mix it a bit, getting into biker stuff and cap-sleeved T-shirts.
• The piper that morning had only worn an ordinary shepherd's cloak, not the short swinging cape, long white woollen socks criss-crossed by leather straps...
• Now she was wearing only a tight white brassiere above her skirt.
• "I only wear British clothes and I'm extremely glad to be advertising a British car on TV, the Vauxhall Astra," he said yesterday.
• Stephen Tomkinson, 32, lay in wait in his 46-year-old victim's bathroom in Leigh Woods, Bristol, wearing only a pair of goalkeeper's gloves.
• One of these I only wear once and everyone's seen
• "It seems that a lot of women only wear one colour of lipstick or have two alternatives.
• The new Conservatives not only wear off-the-peg suits, they adopt off-the-peg philosophies: they have something their predecessors would have sneered at.
• I read with interest of the lady golfer who, when confronted by a naked man wearing only a bowler hat, asked him whether he was a member, and then hit him with a Number 8 iron.
• Oh yes they are they're nice presents and erm she said she is is sort of in charge of his suits and he can only wear a suit she takes a suit to the cleaners every three weeks.

both_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• And you're both wearing your Hackouts, aren't you?"
• Salwar Kamiz is like a national dress of Punjab, worn both by the Muslims of Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs of East Punjab in India.
• Both sported a magnificent moustache, both wore a ten-gallon hat and both were dressed to kill at the Golden Boot Awards for Westerns in Beverly Hills last night.
• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston, where the attack happened said the two men, both wearing balaclavas, hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van's windows.
• They both sometimes wore white stockings, which compounded the uniquely maddening quality of their hems, adding to the aspect, both prim and clinical, which so infuriated Lydia.
• Although they were both wearing neatly polished leather footwear, the laces on both of their right shoes were undone, trailing behind them as they walked.
• Both wore similar dark suits, white shirts and ties.
• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue, Baillieston, where the attack happened, said the two men, who were both wearing balaclavas, hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van's windows, giving the two occupants only seconds to get out before it was engulfed.
• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston, where the attack took place, said the two men, both wearing balaclavas, hurled flaming bottles through one of the van's windows.
• Both wore large chunky gold jewellery.

ever_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• "I'd never, ever wear it again!"
• It was one of her own designs, but whether she would ever have worn it, if it hadn't been for the interfering Roman Wyatt, she didn't know.
• "You don't honestly think I'd ever wear anything like that!"
• The blackest thing that ever wore a fleece.
• As for the Sympatex liner, these are by far the driest leather boots I've ever worn .
• Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class, there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it.
• But 1989 will always be remembered for a bizarre week that resulted in him playing for Munster without ever having worn the Cork senior colours.
• It is the most beautiful thing you will ever wear -- until I surpass myself the next time!"
• There she was, hair swept up as usual, mannishness accentuated by a tailored suit, her presence haloed by the only perfume she ever wore , if she wore any at all.
• "No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers, or had long hair held back by a headband.

normally_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• No one like himself, a partial cripple, with a badly scarred body -- his limp was paining him this week -- and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore .
• I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage.
• He normally didn't like wearing uniforms in films, but wore them with aplomb.
• She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud, explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume, she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents: "une vraie Caireenne, n'est ce pas?"
• Most of her clothes were either tailored for work or casual; when she was at home she normally only wore jeans and sweaters, she thought, then gave a little laugh at her behaviour.
• The British Army soldiers had been, for a considerable period of time, mainly clad in a red tunic for battle, reputably so that any sign of blood was not easily discerned, but Baden-Powell realised that, with the advance of fire arms, the red tunic provided a more prominent target than the rather drab mixture of green and brown as normally worn by the Boers.
• It seems advisable for practitioners who do not normally wear glasses to use simple eye protection glasses for routine cases.
• Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly, and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day.
• He normally never wears anything on his head --" He broke off as Buckmaster reappeared in the doorway.
• It's a small stretchy band, normally worn on the wrist, with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office, that is, desk or radiator but not the computer.

badly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age, and along them are ranged carved figures, many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable.
• The food was unspeakable, most children wore threadbare clothes and badly worn shoes in need of repair.
• But some of them have worn badly.
• Half of them were badly worn , everybody was open to erm, serious leg injuries
• Just as dentists are taught to plug cavities on sight, so they are trained to remove badly worn , leaky or broken fillings.
• The Zeltweg race was, after all, on Niki's home territory, and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil, the race took on a new perspective for Niki: he found himself in the lead, with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres.
• The flats had been built ten years earlier and showed wear badly.
• After twenty years, the Lytham Road track was badly worn , and by the late Fifties the cars performed ever more alarming rolls.
• She felt tired and cold from all her walking, her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her.
• In such works as Bewick's, it is possible to see the deterioration that has occurred from the use of badly worn blocks.

away_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud, snow or rain etc. or has worn away.
• However, with time, the galvanised coating will be worn away (especially if there is a copper pipework in the system) and the cistern will start to rust.
• The adamantium floor down there was inscribed with a maze of tiny coloured channels that bootsteps would never be able to wear away in a pattern suggestive of a cosmic map -- and along all of those channels were spaced little indentations the depth of a Fist's thumbprint, each recess named with a rune.
• When the time came for returning the spoon, he found that part of the soft horn bowl had worn away.
• Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion.
• The top of the anticline has been worn away, down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others.
• In fact, rhynchosaur teeth have only a thin layer of enamel, which apparently was readily worn away.
• The old armour is either worn away gradually, as in crocodiles, or it is shed at special times in a complete "coat", as in lizards and snakes.
• Dorothy's voice held a distinct Welsh singsong, but years in London had worn away any trace of it from Isobel's speech.
• And so it is not easily worn away or eroded.

hardly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood.
• I'm sure she'd been sitting there, but she was hardly wearing anything !
• "I hardly ever wear dresses as they never fit -- you always see me in shorts.
• For to to protect you in the tunnel they said you wear a helmet, but nobody hardly ever wore it.
• And in a scene from Blithe Spirit he adopts a look of frozen outrage that renders a simple line like "A woman in Cynthia Cheviot's position would hardly wear false pearls" inexplicably funny.
• "One can hardly appear wearing L-plates, but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying: "This is the definitive version."
• I hardly wear any because I'm too lazy with maintenance.
• He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning, whether it was snowing or not."
• I hardly wore any dresses.
• Then suddenly she changed her mind and reached into her wardrobe for a new pair of tight stretchy ski trousers that she had hardly worn .

no_longer_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• The huge drafty dorms of ten years ago have been replace with study bedrooms, and the Four Marys no longer wear school uniform all the time and appear to have lost their hats as well!
• I was now so thin, so tubular that I could no longer wear a belt.
• That diary, for instance, seven months out of date, the lipstick she no longer wore , several letters waiting to be answered and a charity appeal leaflet... and, ah, yes, there it was.
• Ladies no longer wear "coats and skirts", instead they go for "suits", "separates" or "mix and match".
• (I could no longer wear thongs.)
• They were no longer wearing string vests, they were wearing Lacoste polo shirts with an alligator emblem on the pocket or "Cisco Kid" shirts with diagonal zippers.
• the hat he wore no longer had a story.
• He remembered his father, Dermot Corcoran, the man whose name was never mentioned in the house, the man whose name they no longer wore .
• Louise Dunstaple, who had once been so fair, now looked like some consumptive Irish girl you might find walking the London streets; in spite of the angry red spots on her pale brow she no longer wore the poultice of flour... the temptation had been too much for her and she had eaten it.
• One of their smart uniforms, which are no longer worn in the country, now occupies a proud position in Walker's office in Scottish prison headquarters in Edinburgh.

long_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• She very often went barefoot in order to keep her feet in good condition, and she wore long, dangly earrings.
• Many of them wear long ragged cloaks, hooded coats, and dangling caps which cover their bodies and protect them from the sunlight.
• In the arctic conditions of the forest margin and tundra, pullover parkas of deerskin, along with deerskin boots and fur caps, were worn by Nenets men, while women wore long wrap-over fur coats.
• You had to wear long, elasticated shorts and a long skirt over them.
• Helen reached in and stirred with distaste; a brown knitted pixie hat surfaced that her mother used to wear long ago, unravelled now to a skeletal condition.
• He is wearing long white shorts with a black band, he is perfectly poised, arms outstretched, slightly crouched, his arrow-like board barely carving the water with one rail, spraying out a tail of whitewater behind him like a comet moving through space.
• They wore long light blue robes and smelled of strange spices.
• The dress was a little too long, but they were worn long at that time so with the help of a pin or two I was able to achieve the desired effect.
• Usually worn long enough!
• Amanda was slender to the point of emaciation, wore long, flowing skirts and walked in an awkward, long-striding way, her slightly curved back giving her a bird-like look.

now_AV0----------adverb----------(back to top)

• I now wear a blue sweater beneath a navy anorak, dark slacks, anonymous.
• He still had thick black unruly hair, which he now wore cut in a DA.
• He is smoking his curly pipe still, but is now wearing only a Turkish bathrobe and Persian slippers.
• Finally they are ambushed and taken prisoner by the enemy (the former lager-louts risen from the dead and now wearing masks); Hadfield goes catatonic with terror, and is solicitously carried off to re-education in the jungle.
• She fastened the clasp of the gold crucifix Therese always wore now on a thin gold chain around her neck.
• The horrified expression the other Rex now wore was exactly identical to the one the other other Rex had been wearing only moments before.
• But for now only two things mattered: firstly, that Norman be reinstated as soon as possible in a manner in which neither party would lose face and one which would not anger his pagan deity; and, secondly, that the ice pack which he now wore strapped between his legs got another top-up from the fridge.
• "The people wearing Hard Yakka now might not be wearing it in 1994, but the product has a wider appeal than a fickle, professionally-trendy minority."
• He now wears his wounded pride as a revolutionary might flaunt his bloodstained fatigues.
• Local companies have been persuaded to foot the bill for specially-developed breathing masks now worn by children on their way to and from school.

often_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Tonight he's smartly dressed in shirt and tie, baggy trousers and leather jacket, but says he often wears the kilt.
• But well heeled Frenchmen often wear political allegiances like fragrant button holes: it is part of their personal decoration rather than a constraint on their way of life.
• In 1968 suits were with flares and turn ups & often worn with a v-neck pullover & no shirt, light weight Italian slip-ons.
• He often wore pinstripe suits and braces, coordinated with a smart shirt and tie, like the outfits portrayed in the film Wall Street.
• Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy, god of the Nile, a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head; Taurt, a hippopotamus goddess, connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth; and Bes, an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion's mane and tail carrying knives, who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child.
• Often worn with pale, open-necked sports shirts and dodgy cravats.
• I often wear a towelling dressing gown when I'm invited out to dinner," said Alex.
• '68/'69 boots with concealed steel toecaps were often purposely worn to expose the metal.
• He often wore open&rehy;necked shirts, and he had a very hairy chest.
• He often wore a low felt hat on his thinning grey hair, and he kept his small moustache and mutton-chop sideburns neatly trimmed.

rarely_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion.
• Alex is a natural beauty and she rarely wears make-up so Fiona applied soft colours for a natural look.
• Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening, apart from a little gold eyeshadow, blusher and lipstick.
• "A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man", wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson, Max Ernst, Dali or most chillingly of all, Hans Bellmer, the female form appears distorted, dissected, feathered, bound and strapped to machines, she rarely even wears a face.
• She rarely wears them: she wears her little locket, superstitiously.
• He is always well-dressed, usually in smart suits and casual shirts, though in deference to the Jewish tradition which he discreetly adorns, he rarely wears a tie.
• But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion.
• In Britain surgeons and theatre staff rarely wear eye protection unless they wear glasses for their eyesight or are treating high risk patients.

sometimes_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Polyester cardigans were sometimes worn over their silks on a cold night, but pullovers were rather rough and for children, not for ladies.
• Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers, a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres, which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite's husband could never possess; and their cousin, Colonel Covington-Pym, Master of Foxhounds, with his rather glorious, highly intimidating wife, a tall, red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it -- Linnet said -- and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair.
• Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits, though you couldn't see them when the top button was done up.
• It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it.
• Dwarfs sometimes wear uniforms appropriate to their province or city state in the same way as men.
• He sometimes wears round" John Lennon type" glasses.
• More splendid than her antique fan of ombre ostrich plumes or her green-black coq feather boa, more splendid even than the towering aigrette a la Pougy which she wore sometimes to go with the diamond.
• I interviewed Donald Watt, the leader of the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team, and one of the things we talked about, both nodding sagely in agreement, was that people sometimes wear very stupid things on the hill.
• "We enter the water, sometimes wearing wet suits, we've used canoes, and we've used poles tied together to splash water near hooks," he said.
• Sometimes worn with black & white striped laces.

time_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Sally felt a little flush of excitement creeping up her cheeks and she was acutely conscious of her gingham uniform dress and the beret which school rules said must be worn at all times when outside the school grounds.
• The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times, just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross.
• They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home, and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own.
• They offer free" valuable information" on how to detect a potential drug user (sunglasses worn at inappropriate times, irritable mood) and how to dismiss that person in a way that minimises the possibility of a lawsuit.
• The Welding Regulations 1970 impose a statutory duty on employers and employees that: "safety goggles must as far as is practicable be worn at all times when welding operations are being carried out".
• "I've worn costume at Carnival time," he said smoothly, ducking the question.
• I thought you used to wear them at one time
• The men wore high-heeled boots at that time o' day.
• Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they're wearing rugby shorts at the time.
• "I used to wear an earring at the time.

ball_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• They're being sold in lots of four... one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy... following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed, his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life.
• They're being sold in lots of four... one includes this mask worn at a ball at the Royal Academy... following the mysterious death of Robert Maxwell and the scandal that followed, his widow says it is an epoch that is past and no longer part of my life.
• for wearing at the ball on the Titanic
• Pushkin was quite wrong about the sort of military dress worn at balls.

school_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Chris, are you wearing the green pumps at school for P E?
• Yous allowed to wear at school?
• "Flick's made a hit," Gay observed that night, strolling into Breeze's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school.
• By the time she was 10, she weighed 11 stone and wore a special tunic at school because she couldn't get a uniform big enough to fit her.
• Harriet, fair-plaited, a tea-towel round her middle, another round her front as wide as the nuns still wore their dicky fronts at school.
• In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second, I push my hands into my jeans pocket -- we aren't supposed to wear jeans at school -- and discover some chewing gum, antique but welcome.
• To his credit, Cheniere did attempt a conciliatory gesture when he suggested that the three adolescents could wear their scarves at school outside class hours.

home_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Elena Rudakov sat beside her husband, and on the back seat of the car, in plastic bags, was a new nightdress of flannelette and two shirts for Yuri to wear at home and two kilos of turnips from the open market and a small rug to go in front of the stove in their living-room.
• He never wore his turban at home, which always gave Hoomey a jolt of surprise, seeing the knee-length black hair coiled on top of his head, skewered in place with a comb.
• She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and...
• Wearing your wedding shoes at home
• For a long time I just could not face wearing them at home.
• Let them wear their scarves at home, he adds; this school is French and secular.

night_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• They wear pyjamas at night and all sorts they do.
• Cool enough to wear a jacket at night."
• Though she was dressed, her long fair hair was still in pigtails, the way she wore it at night.
• Never wear dentures at night.
• This was Madge, who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights.

office_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• Another ploy I have heard suggested is to knit a garment and give it to, say, a friend to wear at the office.
• Bride Hilary McIntyre, 46, who will wear a fun-run outfit at Grimsby register office, said: "We love running, so why not save on wedding cars?"
• While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season, there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction.
• While there are few hard and fast rules about what is precisely right to wear at the office this season, there are some pointers to keep you heading in the right direction.

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• wore off a bit, I mean there was erm, everybody was feeling very patriotic at the beginning of the war but after four or five years the erm novelty wore off
• But as time wears on, the novelty wears off and dissatisfaction results.
• Unfortunately the novelty soon wore off."
• After an hour or two of observing the various shapes and sizes of mouths crammed with teacake the novelty began to wear off and I felt a bilious attack coming on.
• "I dare say the novelty must wear off after a time."
• "The difference was that, for Claire, the novelty wore off.
• Its novelty was wearing off.
• Be prepared for the novelty to wear off.
• It is difficult to summarise them, but, broadly, both they and the Cumberbatch survey confirm the public support for televising, suggest that interest waned slightly as novelty wore off, indicate that on some matters there is growing understanding of Parliament, but make plain that many people still have a lot to learn about MPs and their work and roles.
• After only two visits, however, the novelty wore off, and it was patently obvious that Jeopardy and his partner were oblivious of his presence; it became easy to ignore theirs.

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• "You see our bride is wearing a red Hindu dress," said Dr Haidar, "and also her hands painted with swirls of henna, like a Hindu bride.
• And their bride has to wear er, all in red and er the bridegroo er groom has to wear a long costume with a red big flowers in front i aha and then they get married and there's erm band, the Chinese traditional band with drums and trumpets blowing all the time and er, all the guests have a very nice time.
• At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat.
• 78 AND THE BRIDE WORE ...
• His bride would wear her finest clothes."
• At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat.
• The bride wore a gown of ivory raw satin, with the bride and groom's initials embroidered on the train.
• After a reception at Lythe Hill Hotel, the bride and bridegroom left for a honeymoon in Southern Ireland, the bride wearing a lavender-coloured wool jacket with cream skirt, shirt and matching shoes.
• "Brides always wear white and veils.
• The bride wore a mini-dress.

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• Two firemen wearing breathing apparatus managed to confine the fire to the living room, which was extensively damaged.
• Firemen wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze which extensively damaged the house.
• 6.05am: Two firemen wearing breathing apparatus enter the blazing building.
• With seconds to spare the two girls were plucked to safety by firemen wearing breathing apparatus.
• Firemen wearing breathing apparatus entered a house in Southgate, Hartlepool, after a cooker caught fire.
• Cleveland firemen wearing breathing apparatus saved 120 piglets during a farm blaze at Carlin How.
• Two firemen wearing breathing apparatus managed to confine the fire to the living room, which was extensively damaged.
• Firemen wearing breathing apparatus found the woman in the kitchen.
• Firemen wearing breathing apparatus were sent in to deal with the fire at Hedley-on-the-Hill, Northumberland.
• Firemen wearing breathing apparatus put out a fire in a toilet at the Green Tree pub, Ramsgate, Stockton.

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• Many men wore cushions under their shirts or put on grass skirts and false breasts, whether in emulation or mockery of the gentler sex.
• He was grabbed by a man wearing a black balaclava and pulled to the ground.
• The standard of care was to be judged objectively and the prudent man would wear a seat belt unless there were exceptional circumstances.
• The men wore lederhosen and the women gypsy blouses.
• The painting, which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat standing next to a pair of curtains which have been cut out to form the shape of the man, was painted in 1966 for the present (American) owner's parents who were friends of the artist.
• Police are linking this incident with another report of a man wearing a balacalava, acting susiciously in the Sparcells area of Swindon twenty four hours earlier.
• Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home.
• I read with interest of the lady golfer who, when confronted by a naked man wearing only a bowler hat, asked him whether he was a member, and then hit him with a Number 8 iron.
• It was a man wearing an overcoat pulled high around his neck who succeeded in getting the chance to speak as Gerrard thrust the microphone at him.
• The following year none of the men wearing a mask was killed by a tiger, but 30 without masks fell victim.

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• Women wear a wide red woollen skirt with multi-coloured vertical stripes and a band round the hem, a white blouse with wide elbow-length sleeves, a red embroidered waistcoat, and a small red woollen cloak over one or both shoulders.
• Probably the loudest voice raised in favour of dress reform in the last century was that of the German, Dr Gustav Jaeger, who for sanitary and hygienic reasons, wanted men and women to wear natural, undyed wool next to their skin.
• The women used to wear sari and I have never seen a lately with anything but sari, but now they have started wearing the Punjabi dress.
• In line with their wish to introduce greater solemnity into worship, the Arminian bishops insisted that the parish clergy should incorporate into their church services a number of ritualistic features regarded by ministers and parishioners alike as "popish" these included bowing at the name of Jesus, genuflection, kneeling to receive communion, and the insistence that women should wear veils while being churched following childbirth.
• The women wear the same blue uniforms as the men.
• Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran: he tried to build up a central army, organised a parliament, and decreed that women should wear western dress: the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech.
• Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country, but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear .
• You were hoping that Dame Martha, like everyone else, saw what you wanted them to see: a woman wearing Lady Eleanor's cloak and ring must be Lady Eleanor.
• The view is also heard that the suburban bureau staffed by middle-class middle-aged women wearing twin-sets and pearls can provide no more than a signposting agency and cannot provide the in-depth advice, casework and tribunal representation that full-time paid staff can.
• She purported to represent their views, at any rate, she and her fellow sociologists, sending out their minions to thrust clipboards under the noses of innocent passers-by, randomly sampling their representative populations, designing their questionnaires and weighting their responses to adjust for bias, translating the yeses and the nos into computer language and correlating their variables and then announcing their conclusions to the world: most married couples between the ages of twenty-five and forty perform the act of sexual intercourse two and a half times a week; Northern women tend to wear a D cup and their corsets are a size larger than those worn by their Southern sisters; there is a higher incidence of mental illness found among those born under the first three astrological signs of the year than in any other group...

girl_n----------subject----------(back to top)

• But men do fancy girls wearing blue -- especially on blind dates.
• We girls wore starched white aprons and very uncomfortable they were too.
• "I daresay that girl wears a bikini on the beach, but her father will make her go veiled in Fez.
• It's daft, it says a girl's always got to wear grey if she works behind a counter or in a business 'ouse or as an 'otel clerk.
• He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement: it was a wedding day, a shining moment in his life, and, except for the dressed children, it could be any ordinary day.
• It was a picture of a girl wearing a frilly bonnet and long, frilly drawers that reached down below her dress to her ankles.
• But ITN man Michael said: "Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved."
• You can tell she's in a good mood from the number of bitchy remarks: from Glenys Kinnock's dress sense ("Silly girl to be wearing Yves Saint Laurent") to the election campaign ("It's been just like an American election: no ideas") to John Major's now certain victory ("It's conserved everything we've stood for" -- we, doubtless, in the sense of I).
• The military style of the Rangers includes an exacting dress code: girls wear an emerald green blouse, red scarf, jodhpurs and jodhpur boots or long boots, and a felt cowboy-style hat; the boys' attire includes a fawn shirt, red tie and a dark green beret.
• This dynamic man had entered her life with an explosive force, and he had damaged her secure little world, altering it so drastically that she would never be the same Claudia who had happily spent her days and most of her evenings designing dresses for other girls to wear .

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• Susan protested that it was all right; but it was very painful, and grew worse as the evening wore on.
• Wouldn't I like to curl up on the sofa? -- and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do, where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around -- and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society, no matter what the background, or the income, or the form the party took, was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home, but didn't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening's fun.
• Beau Brummel had laid down the requirements for men's evening wear at Almack's.
• As the evening wore on, he asked Derek if he knew anything about the Ulster Defence Association or anybody in it.
• Hardy Amies and other designers lend or give me evening wear .
• Evening wear is ceremonial dress.
• However, for slinky evening wear , black, be it opaque or sheer, is still the right choice.
• The blue suit that no longer went to the Curragh race meetings or the Dublin Horse Show, was his evening wear .
• After the break up of the famous "Emanuel" partnership and subsequent liquidation of the company, Alison-Jayne decided to return home and use her knowledge and skills to set up her own couture bridal and evening wear business in Northern Ireland.
• Lace made on a knitting machine can be whatever you want it to be; it can be filmy and fine for evening wear , lightweight in fine wool for a layer of warmth or used as a break inserted into the stocking stitch of a warm, chunky sweater.

lady_n----------subject----------(back to top)

• A sort of sash for some lady to wear round her smooth, soft-skinned waist.
• But what Mary wished to have, in keeping with what the other ladies wore , was a ring of such quality that it would draw looks of admiration ... such as a dazzling diamond ring.
• This is because the same reading of light must be selected in each part: either both ladies are wearing "undark" coats, or both are wearing "unheavy" coats.
• THREE large ladies wearing Viking helmets sang what they called George Bush's swansong outside the White House yesterday.
• Lord and Lady Longford, Keith Waterhouse, Sir Clement Freud and a host of ladies wearing what appeared to be late Victorian chic gave the evening a satisfying eclectic air.
• Poor dear Hugh's face was somehow much less vivid than the tall hennins a married lady could wear , that gave her extra height.
• The old lady was defiantly wearing her dead husband's Legion d'honneur about her neck.
• Johnson, outlining a preference for vegetable derivatives rather than animal, said, "I have often thought, that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns, or cotton -- I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances" and declared a hatred for silk: "you cannot tell when it is clean."
• A lady would usually wear a long, flowing tunic, fastened at the shoulders with brooches, tied under the bust, and bloused at the waist.
• "I had a beautiful green crinoline dress and all the ladies wore white mop caps," she said of her role as Polly Peacham.

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• Robyn's patience was beginning to wear thin.
• Josh's patience was wearing thin.
• The Nez Perces' patience wore thin.
• If all this were laid on with a trowel, the reader's patience would quickly wear thin.
• Border emerged from that verbal fracas with a flea in his ear from Australian officials, but their patience is said to be wearing thin.
• She could tell the signs when Brian Spittals' patience was wearing thin: his hands began to rub together frantically and his eyes wandered towards the bowls trophies in the display cupboard.
• Her patience did wear thin but, in general, she resigned herself graciously to being the leader of the pack.
• My patience is wearing thin! [dream]
• Whitaker thought this was all wonderful stuff and great fun, but at one stage when his patience was wearing thin he was heard to exclaim: "This is worse than working for Murdoch!"

rider_n----------subject----------(back to top)

• Everything is day-glo, from pumps and pedals to the funny little helmets the riders wear to stop any further brain damage when they inevitably hit their heads on a rock.
• The point rider wore tight white-and-blue striped pants, a red tailcoat, a dyed white beard and a stars-and-stripes stovepipe hat.
• Isn't it about time someone took a long hard look at the laughable regulations on what riders wear and questioned whether they benefit the sport?
• The rider wore a gilded Grecian helmet that was crested with black and red wool and plumed with a white tuft.
• So, for example, an Orc rider wearing a chainmail shirt and carrying a shield has an armour save of 3+ compared to 4+ for a man wearing the same armour and riding a horse, and 5+ for the same Orc fighting on foot.
• Only in endurance riding, polo and cross country do we see riders wearing sensible clothing.
• On the cross country day the riders wear practical clothing for the job in hand, but either side of that they'll wear an outfit like Jimmy Cricket's and go show jumping in a jacket.
• But he looked up all the same and saw the bike pass by, the rider wearing an unfamiliar black helmet and black leathers, the motorbike low-slung, bulging, making a noise that made him think of someone beating cream in a bowl with a wooden spoon.
• Many of the riders wore face-guards like visors in some medieval contest.

sir_n----------subject----------(back to top)

• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work ha ha ha.
• Truly sir truly sir to wear out their shoes.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work ha ha.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself into more work.
• Truly sir to wear out their shoes to get myself some more work.

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• Right: Clarissa wears her own make-up, which Judith updated to give a softer look (far right).
• Below: Time for opening the presents at home with Roger, Jamie and Kirsty the dog: Clarissa wears Principles black, sequinned T-shirt, GBP39.99; Next Directory pleated chiffon skirt, GBP64.99.
• Left: In the NCDL's office, beneath the gaze of its patron The Queen, Clarissa wears Principles pure-wool tweed suit: jacket, GBP85 and skirt, GBP39.99; Harvey Nichols black wool poloneck body, GBP79; Marks & Spencer Velvet opaque tights, GBP7.99; Butler & Wilson gilt earrings, GBP42 and pearl and gold rope necklace, GBP98
• Below: Wrapped up for winter walks along the canal, Clarissa wears a Gloverall duffel coat, GBP147.50; N+L ribbed polo-neck sweater, GBP47.99; Oasis wool-mix stirrup pants, GBP39.99; Russell & Bromley slip-on shoes, GBP89.50.

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• Because it is impossible to use a shield while swinging a halberd this trooper wears a substantial suit of armour to protect him.
• Talabecland troopers wear red and yellow.
• Its troopers wear black and white, a combination which lends itself to bold parti-coloured divisions, broad stripes, checks and diamonds.
• The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge, Alexei noted, and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables.

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• This page: Rev wears tank-top made to order or for hire from Contemporary Wardrobe, as before; Sixties pinstripe hipsters from Wild Child, as before: Clark's desert boots from Lilley and Skinner, as before; studded wristband from Oxfam
• Opposite page: Rev wears parka by Romeo Gigli from Browns, 23-27 South Molton Street, London W1; and vest from Damart Thermal Wear, 235 Regent Street, London W1, and stockists nationwide.
• This page: Rev wears slipover by Ralph Lauren, 143 New Bond Street, London W1; cap-sleeve T-shirt from Portobello Road Market, London W11; identity bracelet from Camden Passage, London NW1
• Opposite page: Rev wears rib-knit sweater by Jean-Paul Gaultier from Bazaar For Men, 4 South Molton Street, London W1; Sixties pinstripe hipsters from Wild Child, Unit F31, Kensington Market, Kensington High Street, London W8; vest from Portobello Road Market, London W11; Skinner, Oxford Street, London W1 and branches, studded wristband from Oxfam
• Opposite page: Rev wears Sixties pinstripe suit made to order or for hire from Contemporary Wardrobe, as before; grandad top by Ally Capellino, from Ally Capellino, 95 Wardour Street, London W1, and Harrods, Knightsbridge London SW1; Claddagh ring from Camden Passage, London NW1; and studded wristband from Oxfam

brownie_n----------subject----------(back to top)

• Brownies wear a long-sleeved khaki shirt, trousers and a yellow tie.
• Brownies wear a yellow and brown uniform, but the Guide uniform is light and dark blue.
• The Association des Girl Guides Luxembourgeoises (1) Brownies wear brown trousers, a light brown shirt and dark brown tie.
• And though all Brownies wear yellow neckerchiefs, each Guide Company has a different colour.
• A Letzeburger Guiden (2) Brownie wears a navy blue skirt and top with a royal blue tie.

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• He was also shot in the head by a gunman wearing a baseball cap.
• Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him, his wife and their two small sons.
• A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide.
• Pc Kelly's identification of him; a footprint at the murder scene matched a trainer Magee threw away in Pontefract, and clothing he dumped matched the description of what the gunman was wearing .
• AN alleged IRA gunman wore nothing but a pair of boxer shorts when he appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday charged with murder.

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• Meet the experts from Harpers & Queen, Clarins and Harrods, as well as maternity wear designer Elaine Coleman from DUO, who can help you look and feel great during your pregnancy.
• Tracy also sells a small range of maternity wear produced by local designer Jill Williams.
• Stylish yet comfortable maternity wear isn't always as easy to find as it should be.
• Second floor: ladies' lingerie bridal garments maternity wear murder and adultery...
• The former Satzenbrau Designer of the Year, who has turned her skillful hand to cute childrenswear and funky adult gear, is currently planning her next big projects -- a range of maternity wear that will be far from maternal, and the opening of a local retail outlet.

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• But Mick Jagger wore a suit when he was best man to photographer David Bailey.
• Mick Jagger wore a dress at his Hyde Park concert and very pretty he looked too.
• TWO DAYS after Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, Mick Jagger was wearing a dress, reciting Shelley (Percy not Pete) and releasing thousands of white butterflies to 300,000 assembled in Hyde Park.

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• Powder blue jersey dress, and high strappy shoes like the ones Sue wears .
• ? The skirt Sue is wearing belongs to Mary; my sister has it, too.
• She thought that by far the most apt symbol of women's liberation was the beautifully simple clenched red fist-in-a-bag, which Clare and Sue also wore in their lapels.
• The second week Sue appeared wearing her scarlet cross-over.
• My sister has the skirt Sue is wearing now.
• She thought that by far the most apt symbol of women's liberation was the beautifully simple clenched red fist-in-a-bag, which Clare and Sue also wore in their lapels.

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• Melissa wondered if the police had taken this into account and what Angy had been wearing when her body was found.
• "Surely you noticed the antique ring with the garnet that Angy used to wear ?"
• "I was wondering what Angy was wearing when she was found."

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• Their mother (i.e. Surjeet's mother-in-law) kept asking me to wear it over my head.
• He pulled a high stool from beneath the breakfast bar, the denim jeans he was wearing tightening over his muscular thighs as he sat down.
• Such skirts are especially good worn over tights if you're young and dashing or over a strongly contrasting coloured slip if you don't fancy showing lots of leg -- or try a mini length slip and a longer lace skirt as a happy compromise.
• Condoms are sheaths of thin rubber that are worn over the penis and research has confirmed that, used properly, they are an effective barrier against HIV when used in anal and vaginal sex.
• She bleached her hair and had it cut in a sex-kitten tangle of curls and black-rimmed her eyes above pale-pink lipstick ( worn over a white base) and she felt utterly forlorn and unbelonging.
• During colder weather, the management supplies a tanzen (outer garment) to wear over the yukata.
• In any case, if Parson Woodforde's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily "out of pocket", all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday.
• Surprise made her catch a breath, but it was the swiftly ensuing resentment that held it locked in her lungs for seconds after she should have expelled it as she stared questioningly at Luke Scott, casually elegant in a beautifully made lightweight jacket worn over a pale shirt and obviously expensive trousers with a discreetly fashionable belt.
• Made of thin rubber and worn over the erect penis, a condom prevents sperm from entering the woman.
• Polyester cardigans were sometimes worn over their silks on a cold night, but pullovers were rather rough and for children, not for ladies.

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• Do you know what you can wear underneath it?
• They wore tights, and what they wore underneath that no one had told Coffin.
• what's coming into fashion now are long woollen panties to wear underneath your trousers.
• If I don't wear a shirt underneath it, it's gonna look stupid.
• So they're wearing smocks underneath the apron?
• To my surprise, she was wearing panties underneath her nightdress.
• She had lean flanks and no tummy, and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew.
• Aye you wear a shirt underneath it.

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• Mary had abrasions in her armpits, some of them serious, from wearing her flying harness next to her skin.
• SUPERSTAR Cher, who prefers wearing next to nothing in public, goes to bizarre lengths to keep her private life private.
• Wash daily, apply a non-greasy body lotion to dry patches only, and wear loose cotton next to the skin when you can.
• The painting, which depicts a man wearing a bowler hat standing next to a pair of curtains which have been cut out to form the shape of the man, was painted in 1966 for the present (American) owner's parents who were friends of the artist.
• A STAR who prances about wearing next to nothing covered himself in glory yesterday... as best-dressed man of the year.
• I was even more impressed with the jacket's performance when I wore it next to my skin -- it has an antibacterial finish to the fleece which makes it suitable for this purpose.
• Designed initially as an all-day alpine suit, the Nevada jacket and salopettes can be worn next to the skin or over a thermal wicking layer.
• As though to underline her thoughts, and reverting suddenly to a much earlier observation, he said: "Do all the women in your time wear next to nothing?"
• It's perfectly clear that you're a lady, even if you do use the most shockin'ly vulgar expressions... and wear next to nothing; which is delightful but disturbing... and not quite the done thing."
• They felt comfortable worn next to the skin.

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• I now wear a blue sweater beneath a navy anorak, dark slacks, anonymous.
• She slipped out of her cotton skirt and the enormously full paper nylon petticoat she wore beneath it.
• Some poetic complaints survive on the concealing nature of this dress, designed to cover the tunic but to be worn beneath a cloak.
• At the far end, on a dais, was a long table crowded with fierce-looking men dressed in costly ermine and sable-edged cloaks, though, from where he stood, Corbett could see the glint of armour many of them wore beneath their robes.
• Wearing a flak jacket beneath his dark green anorak, Mr Major flew into the former Yugoslavia amid strict secrecy and high security.
• It clung to her so tightly that she wore no underwear beneath.
• When Luke called her heart seemed to expand at the look of admiration that slipped over his face as his gaze took in her simple cream suit in thick, crunchy lace, the severe black camisole she wore beneath it, but he merely murmured, "Punctual as always.
• She stared down at her dress, blushing as she remembered how little she was wearing beneath it.
• For their routine they wore white curled wigs beneath black velvet hats and white satin dresses with narrow black-edged flounces.
• Dulcie Howes was not allowed to take the curtain up until a ludicrous compromise was reached by removing the stockings and suspenders, revealing the pink tights that were worn beneath them.

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• There are pieces on gospel choirs in the Deep South, Gaultier penknife combs, and the new Manchester club fashion for wearing a plastic robot around your neck.
• The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him.
• With a soft, luxurious feel, they are wonderfully comfortable for wearing around the home, but could just as easily be dressed up for a smarter occasion.
• He came in, wearing rags around his loins and a Russian officer's cap.
• The material was called a "benn" and the winner wore it around his waist as the Captain's badge of office.
• The same wills also list the liturgical objects -- crosses, plates, censers, bells, candle-sticks -- that furnished these nobles' chapels, and the reliquaries made of precious metals and precious stones and housing fragments of saints' bones, hair and beards, or even the names of holy men, which the rich and powerful kept in their treasuries, or even wore around their necks.
• Help can be summoned from ACET or other services merely by pressing a button on a pendant worn around the neck.
• Passive resistance to the SLORC's election campaign restrictions was demonstrated by the widespread wearing of the peasant bamboo hat, the election symbol of the NLD, while rice stalks, the symbol of the NUP, were worn around the ankles as a mark of disrespect for the military regime.
• Her wardrobe is full of tops -- from the smart blouses she needs to wear on TV to a colourful collection of jumpers that she can wear around the home.
• Keep your money and credit cards safe in a bumbag worn around your waist -- there are loads of great styles around.

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• What are you gonna wear it round all town in the shops and that?
• He wore round his neck a scrimshaw on a silver chain.
• A sort of sash for some lady to wear round her smooth, soft-skinned waist.
• She looked at her wedding ring, which she wore round her neck in the day, and kept on her finger all night.
• The winner is the one who jumps and crawls for the longest time, and he receives a blue ribbon to wear round his waist.
• what, oh, erm, there's something I've just thought of though, when they wear the er camouflage things, is that when they wear the maroon belt round?, isn't the kaki belt with the dress uniform?
• Her confessor having ordered her to use an ordinary discipline and leave off her iron chain, she made it knot three rows and wore it round her body...
• The presenter stopped fingering the amber necklace she wore round her neck and crossed her arms.
• She was draped in a kind of Greek fashion by two of her coloured shawls and she wore round her neck Rachaela's green glass beads.
• And of course you know there are twenty odd fronts at where they were fighting, and er they made big paly of this because er the people who did volunteer knew, there was a few volunteered, they they gave them er white bands to wear round the arm to show that they was members of the relief force you know.

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• One wore a sack round his shoulders like a shawl, another had it round her waist as an apron.
• As the pursuit thundered past, Ramsay saw, under the great royal standard, a richly armoured knight who wore a golden circlet round his helmet -- Balliol himself.
• Just a small bowl, about the size of a teacup; made of a dull pewterish metal, leaf-thin with age; decorated with some worn beading round the rim, and on the sides a formal pattern of entwining lines.
• Her child should wear a notice round its neck: Conceived from my father while he drank my blood, suspected of being a demon .
• We discovered that the man in the coffin at Sheen probably never wore a chain round his waist."
• "I always wear my knickers round my ankles."
• The belt lift is an alternative to the normal pelvic lift: the patient wears a strong webbing belt round the waist, and the carer pulls on this to lever the patient into position.
• Sixteen-stone Mel joked: "I wear massive padding round my body and a big suit with slicked-back floppy hair."
• You see, James used to wear a chain round his waist as an act of mortification."
• Alan was on the screen; there were streaks of blood on his face, his arm was strapped up and he wore a blanket round his shoulders.

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• He was wearing a thick grey cardigan over a white shirt and it reminded her of how chilly the air was in the house.
• You should have worn a coat over that dress -- the night's not warm enough for an outfit like that."
• He kissed her briefly on the lips and came into the flat, a slightly-built sandy-haired man in his mid-thirties wearing a heavy black overcoat over a sweater and cords.
• Opposite them was a small elfin fellow who wore a shiny blue waistcoat over his gallibaya.
• He was wearing a waterproof cape over his white sweater and had changed into knee-length rubber boots.
• On his third raid Fielding wore a sock over his head.
• As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store.
• Her wet boots made footprints on the dusty floor and she still wore an apron over her black skirt, but she had a fine air about her.
• With the pick-up truck, if we learned to smoke roll-ups and wore denim jackets over our fleecy tops, we might be mistaken for locals.
• The belt here is hidden under the over fall, and a further garment, a veil, is worn over head and shoulders.

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• He wore it like a sommelier's key, an order of merit or a symbol of kingship. from his pocket he produced a new magazine.
• But well heeled Frenchmen often wear political allegiances like fragrant button holes: it is part of their personal decoration rather than a constraint on their way of life.
• I sing a song about Donald Duck Donald Duck wears a hat like this, a hat like this, like this, Donald Duck wears a hat like this, has he got a drink of Coke?
• The Sun made the connection quite explicit -- "They were wearing balaclava helmets like the Fox rapist, who held the area in terror last summer, and skinhead-style Dr Marten boots".
• I was wearing evening clothes like a dress extra, and I had flour in my hair.
• With his hand pressed firmly to a creased brown, Spencer uttered: "Oh man, if I'd known you were gonna wear shoes like that, we wouldn't have been having this conversation... "
• Why couldn't he wear a toupee like me?"
• Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off.
• And wearing a hat like that and all.
• When Aisha returned from work, coming through the door weighed down with plastic carrier bags, her coat smelling of perfume mixed with cigarette smoke, I gave a shiver of anger: I wanted to carry shopping bags like that and wear a coat like hers!

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• He wore a cap on his head ('I even capitalized on my semi-baldness by signing with Parmalat to wear a cap with their name on it') and my memory is of a certain artificial constraint on the part of many in paddock and pit-lane in approaching him.
• Some of the men wore earphones with dangling plugs which they occasionally plugged into a machine, nodding professionally like doctors sounding a chest.
• A dress can be worn with clumpy men's shoes; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable, roomy and worn by either sex; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down, such as "no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women".
• I can't wear rinking boots with that now, can I?"
• At his side was Lady Isabella who for that day had cast aside her mourning weeds and wore a pure gold dress with matching veil.
• She used to wear a spotless white blouse with an enormous black bow on her chest and always wore her rehearsal pants very long.
• GOLD STAR Right: Harriet Close wears L'Ultima cardigan with gold bugle beading, GBP145; Elaine Closs yellow chiffon circle skirt, GBP225; Dolcis suede sandals with gold trim, GBP24.99; Charnos Matt Satin Opaque tights, GBP5.10
• He was wearing a white tunic with a purple cloak thrown over it and had a wreath of bay leaves in his hair.
• As detailed and illustrated in " MI " No.14, the enlisted men's basic uniform consisted of a dark blue wool, five-button, rolling-collar "sack coat" and light blue kersey trousers; a dark blue visored "pill-box" forage cap was worn with barracks dress, a light brown slouch field hat for other duties.
• Being higher than the policemen on the ground, I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up.

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• Kent was the major producer and consumer of gold jewellery and it is not surprising to find that the greatest number of coins is found there also, often mounted on suspension loops and worn on necklaces.
• Can I wear Nuform on Tuesday then?"
• Bars are awarded in the usual way and, as is common to most awards, are depicted by a rosette worn on the ribbon if the medal is not worn.
• Er but there are of course h n while we're on that point there are, I'm afraid, there are s people who take advantage of Marks and Spencers, erm because they know there's going to be no problem about having goods exchanged so what they do, they buy something from Marks and Spencers wear it on one evening for, for a party or special occasion
• Poor-sighted as they were, they caught the brilliant light of the jewel, but you had mistakenly put it on your left hand, whereas Lady Eleanor always wore the ring on the right.
• "Our kits are marketed as much for leisurewear as they are for wearing on the terraces.
• What do you think about me wearing my red jacket on Saturday?
• Tigers stalking workers have not attacked those wearing face-masks on the back of their heads.
• Until now, Gemma's had to be fed through her nose, using a naso-gastric tube attached to a pack which she wears on her back for 16 hours a day.
• "Black web, red spider at the centre, worn on the back of the left hand?"

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• The woman who started the craze for wearing underwear on top of your clothes -- don't knock it if you haven't tried it -- will receive a $3 million advance on her publishing contract, a $5 million advance for each new album and $2 million upon delivery of each finished record.
• The porter has a kilt poking out from under his jacket, and Macduff is stuck with wearing a raincoat on top of his dinner suit for the whole show.
• "I shouldn't have taken it off," she wailed, and Jimmy imagined her wearing her hat on top of the bag.
• She also wore large red-frame glasses, although she wore them on top of her head, as if to keep in place the shock of ginger-red red hair which she'd rubber-banded into a pony tail down most of the length of her back.
• His eccentricities were revealed in his habits of unbuttoning his suit cuffs and turning them back, or wearing one v-neck jumper on top of another.
• He was wearing a white overall on top of his grey prison issue clothes and he pulled the overall off as soon as he was inside.

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• ELITE OF THE FLEET by Peter Morgan is a book composed entirely of photos of embroidered "patches" as worn by American Naval aviators from 1927 to the present day and as such will be of limited interest to the general reader of aircraft literature.
• Figure 36 The crown of gilded silver worn by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, for his coronation as Holy Roman Emperor at Aachen in 1257.
• A great deal of time and thought had gone into the varied and colourful array of costumes worn by the contestants, and into their entertainingly apposite choice of titles; everybody, however, agreed that "Worzel Gummidge and Aunt Sally", who had travelled all the way from Norfolk, were the worthy winners.
• He realized it was blue and saw the loose thread writhing at the button of the prison shirt worn by the smiling dark haired girl.
• Traditional Dutch costumes are still worn by many of the inhabitants of both villages.
• Full academic robes will be worn by the students at the Higher Awards Ceremony which will be held in the college hall in Cleveland Avenue tomorrow.
• Instead of fashion being mainly, well almost totally an upper class preoccupation, it became, because of the ease of manufacture and because more clothes were more readily available and cheaper, it became one, something that was worn by the middle classes, gradually sort of percolated downwards.
• Photographs were distributed of young men wearing clothing similar to that worn by the two attackers involved in the incident which led to the death of Mr Sheldon, 20.
• This was a scaled-down version of the carpenter's apron worn by my father on the Sabbath.
• Ethnology shows that girdles of cowrie shells were worn by Tibetan women as charms against barrenness.

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• Featuring bright hooded sweatshirts worn under suit jackets, teamed with baseball caps and baseball boots, young fashionables in search of the Endless Wave will be seen in full regalia around Soho this spring.
• Even the angle of the helmet is defined; and the order ends with the instruction: "the strap will be worn under the point of the chin, but during the summer months the strap maybe tucked inside the helmet".
• Getting out, he tossed the cap on the seat, wrestled off the uniform, exposing the lightweight dark suit he wore under it.
• "They asked me if there was anything worn under the kilt and I told them no, it was all in good working order," remarked Lewis drily.
• SHARP polyester/ viscose mix jacket (GBP34.99) is softened by wearing a lace body under it.
• Jane recommended scoop-necked bodies worn under silky shirts, which Helen could team with flowing trousers or skirts for a stylish but relaxed look.
• She wore a white ribbed sweater under the soft leather jacket and a tweed hat on her head, and carried a small overnight suitcase.
• He who goes to work wearing a Chelsea football kit under his suit and later makes love in the team socks while quoting Hamlet clearly has no truck with cultural snobbishness.
• Either he's wearing pyjamas under his jacket or he's changed his taste in shirts.
• Many men wore cushions under their shirts or put on grass skirts and false breasts, whether in emulation or mockery of the gentler sex.

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• He could also be seen riding on Buddie's back with a shiny red apple in each hand, and again walking beside Smallfry on the day she wore the big yellow roses in her hair.
• She held his hands tight, but he smiled, freed his hands, then reached for the grey ostrich feathers she wore in her hair.
• "I have one pupil who shows off how rich her parents are by wearing a huge silk flower in her hair," says one teacher.
• She'd gathered the fragrant blooms from a tub outside on the narrow balcony and deeply inhaled its sweet perfume before deciding to wear it in her hair.
• The old man, who wore a cloth bow in his long gray hair, looked at the French boy for a moment, then his weather-beaten face cracked in a slow smile and he raised his arm above his head.
• She wore spring flowers in her hair and carried a shower bouquet of similar flowers, with the addition of Australian mimosa and eucalyptus.
• Bunny was frowning; the woman, who the night before had worn a bow in her hair, stared obliquely at Meredith.
• The position of the beads in the grave normally suggests they were worn on a necklace, but a case can be made for some having been worn in the hair.
• Wearing flowers in their hair, decorating their limbs
• Maria had worn them in her hair at her wedding.

bed_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• "You wear them in bed."
• I just don't know what was wrong with it, I've work, Jason said Ja we a subject turned to what he wore in bed Ja and Jason said nothing, right but he said when it's winter I wear my t-shirt and the pants and I cuddle up to my glow worm and we was all taking the mickey out of his glow worm, right so I've come home and I read the paper and I'll see glow worm in it, so I cut it out and give it to him and he stuck it up in the factory !
• What do you wear in bed?
• And, of course, being a conscientious, highly professional fashion correspondent, that means what we wear in bed.
• The direst accusations always seem to centre on husbandly refusal to wash or change underwear and a tendency to wear socks in bed.
• But Rose wouldn't wear anything in bed.
• In winter it got so cold that you would have to wear your clothes in bed.
• When they are in their pyjamas, or dressing-gown if they wear nothing in bed, the electrodes are applied to their faces and heads.
• They had also sent knitted comforts to Eileen, and Anne had made a balaclava helmet for herself which she wore in bed as well as a pair of her father's socks and a cardigan over her pyjamas.
• She would have to accept the gifts offered by her strange mistress, all that silky lingerie, otherwise she'd have nothing to wear in bed, nothing to put on over a nightie when going to the bathroom.

lapel_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• You do not wear a rose in your lapel as he did."
• She thought that by far the most apt symbol of women's liberation was the beautifully simple clenched red fist-in-a-bag, which Clare and Sue also wore in their lapels.
• She thought that by far the most apt symbol of women's liberation was the beautifully simple clenched red fist-in-a-bag, which Clare and Sue also wore in their lapels.

bun_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• These moais have been lovingly restored: their two-piece red topknots and yellow bodies, carved to represent Easter Island tattoo patterns, clearly demonstrate that these were representations of real people, folk who wore their hair in a bun and stretched the lobes of their ears.
• Maisie was a plump woman in her fifties who always wore her dark hair in a bun at the back of her head.
• I am fed up with French plaits and ponytails and refuse to wear my hair in a bun.

shades_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• The Freemans man wears pastels in up-to-date shades of blush pink, powder green and pale cream.
• She was wearing a cheap polyester dress in hideous shades of brown and pink, and her hair looked wispy and unkempt.
• She was wearing a tweed check suit in shades of lovat green and brown and she didn't want his sticky fingers on it -- or worse.

evening_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• I tend to wear black suits in the evening although I must admit I'm getting slightly bored with black now.
• two, two shirts for wearing on the slopes, one pair, one pair for wearing in the evening, I've got one shirt to go in and the one I'm wearing as I, as I go out
• She switched off the CD player, went into the bedroom, checked that her black dress, red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning: tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed.
• Mind you in the evening, if it gets quite chilly in the evenings so it might be a good jumper to wear in the evenings when we go for our evening walks by the sea.
• My non-uniform clothes, which were worn in the evenings and at weekends, were also secondhand, bought in a secrecy which my mother insisted on, from a shop in Notting Hill.
• Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening, apart from a little gold eyeshadow, blusher and lipstick.

colour_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• Pit helmets (hard hats) were worn in club colours at matches before & during skinhead, so they were not a skinhead "style".
• Today he wore fashionable baggy Italian shorts in a khaki colour and a white short-sleeved cotton shirt.
• Bridesmaid Katie wore a replica on her mother's dress and niece Emma wore a variation in the same blush colour.
• Ann opened the door of the large student house in South London where she lives, wearing a cotton print dress in deep colours, and my first impression was of someone fair and small and limping.
• Beneath it, she wore loose silky pants in the same colour, pleated and gathered into a deep, fitted waistband and tapering at her ankles, one of which sported a fine gold anklet.
• State regiments wear uniforms in the traditional colours of their provinces or cities.

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• One wore a tattered summer dress in pink spotted cotton with double flounces, the other a pinafore over a checked blouse.
• The girl was wearing a flowing white robe in cheap cotton, a cross between a sari and a dressing-gown; her hair tumbled every which way; health and pleasure pulsed off her; the blaze in her eyes was best avoided.
• Hilary wore a shirtwaister dress in multicoloured Indian cotton, three buttons at the neck undone.

winter_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• The other group consisted of horse and cattle-herding peoples of the steppes and mountain pastures of the southern margin of Siberia who, while wearing animal-skin garments in winter, were also well acquainted with textiles.
• Her husband, who had a bristly white moustache, wore in winter a hand-knitted Balaclava helmet, a long cloth coat, and boots; in summer, a cap took the place of the helmet, and a light jacket the coat.
• this is the er survival technique take your coat off supposing you in London tube and it's broken down plus this thing's not as useful, do you remember what happened, know how starts to get cold, take you w wearing a coat in winter take your coat off
• She wore it in the winter and the merry month of May;

pool_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• I wore my goggles in the swimming pool
• Many pregnant mums enjoy swimming to keep in shape, but have trouble finding anything stylish to wear in the pool.
• I wore my goggles in the swimming pool, good

street_n----------PP_in----------(back to top)

• Respect for Animals also calls for an immediate ban on fur farming, an end to fur sales within five years and for people to show their feelings if they see somebody wearing a pelt in the street.
• Over his mouth and nose was a white mask of the sort that the Japanese wear in the streets of Tokyo.
• The local people had stoned her for wearing trousers in the street and Fernando had ruefully added how things had changed since then -- now anything went in Majorca.
• He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning, whether it was snowing or not."

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• This procedure is much easier if sterile gloves are worn .
• Rubber gloves should be worn when handling soiled articles.
• When a risk is perceived gloves are generally worn , but a proper assessment is infrequently performed.
• Gloves should be worn .
• Gloves should be worn when handling insulation material.
• Many patients find it more acceptable if gloves are worn for all venepuncture.

mask_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• There is a carnival spirit abroad in contemporary Italian writing, with a lot of masks being worn , but a depressing sense that a few of them have much to hide.
• Users can refill and transfill air cylinders while the air mask is worn without the need to remove the air cylinder.
• For this reason, masks may be worn by personnel in operating theatres and on other occasions e.g wound dressing, when the patient is likely to be at risk of succumbing to infection.
• The masks were worn at funerals by young men of the family who bore the nearest physical resemblance to the subjects of the wax portraits.
• Unfortunately, no dust extraction facility is included with the machine, and a dust mask should therefore be worn .
• Bonuses arising from the masks only apply when the mask is being worn (except for the paper mask), but the penalties are permanent and cannot be dispelled.

badge_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• Party members themselves were now avoiding the "Heil Hitler" greeting, and the Party badge was being worn less and less frequently.
• Special Amnesty forget-me-not badges were worn to commemorate all the prisoners on whose behalf Amnest was founded.
• If name badges are worn , nurses need to remember that people who wear bifocal spectacles have difficulty in reading at that level, and any cues regarding inadequate vision should be noted.
• This badge continued to be worn until 1958 when The Yorkshire Brigade was formed and the brigade badge adopted.
• Name badges are worn by staff.

armour_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• Troops' saving throws are not given on their profile because they vary depending on what armour is being worn .
• The old armour is either worn away gradually, as in crocodiles, or it is shed at special times in a complete "coat", as in lizards and snakes.
• Normal armour cannot protect its bearer against the Hammer of Sigmar, and no armour saves are allowed unless magic armour is worn .
• This armour had been worn by the first Phoenix King during the ancient wars with Chaos.

clothes_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• At present they "share" the offence of indecent assault with many minor forms of misconduct, such as giving an unwanted kiss or fondling clothes being worn by someone else, for which the penalty is likely to be a long way down the scale.
• What kind of clothes should be worn .
• There is no meal ready; all the washing and ironing sits there waiting to be done, instead of clean clothes waiting to be worn again.
• Tim noticed that they looked shabby, their clothes were worn at the edges, the collars dull and frayed.
• And then there's black clothes was worn .
• There's nothing to prove these clothes are worn by me; after all, they're in your bureau."
• But early that spring, these adventures seemed unlikely if not impossible: the men had little quinine, their boots and clothes were worn thin, and when attack was unlikely they went around barefoot.

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• This may indicate that the brooches were consistently worn in a particular position, but not in the same way.
• Single brooches were generally worn with the headplates pointing to the left and pairs with their headplates pointing to the right, and parallel.
• Women's clothes show about eight variations in the position of dress-fasteners, with one, two or three brooches being worn in varying position on the shoulders and chest, sometimes with sleeve fasteners (frequently referred to as "wrist clasps") particularly in eastern England.

wig_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• There were no restrictions about hair length as wigs were worn for most numbers.
• A tall top hat covered his long sandy hair, for while fashionable white wigs were worn socially, they would have been ruined by blood splashes whilst on duty.
• They rarely showed their hair on stage as enormous head-dresses or wigs were worn .

shoe_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• Notes Stout shoes should be worn .
• Notes Stout shoes should be worn .
• There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractere form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour, the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps.
• Notes Stout shoes should be worn .
• I can't remember them all now, but I know that no speaking was allowed in the class-rooms, corridors or on the stairs; no running anywhere indoors; no borrowing of any kind; all long hair had to be plaited; indoor shoes were never to be worn outside, nor outdoor shoes inside, and there were specific shoes for games, gym, hockey and so on; school uniform was strictly enforced, and hats compulsory.

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• All the trousers tested here were worn in a wide range of conditions and temperatures from late winter to spring.
• The boy hanging on to Art's sleeve was shabbily dressed; his trousers were worn at the knees and there was a rip in his sweatshirt.
• I recall summer commenced on 1 May in Newcastle for our "shirt sleeve order" meanwhile at the other end of the Northumbrian body, para. 32 of the order commands that "trousers will be worn with the bottoms of the trouser legs, at the front, just touching the instep".
• Black or grey trousers were worn on duties other than full dress parades, and a brassard showing a Union Jack with a swastika superimposed was worn on the left arm in conjunction with the uniform.

suit_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• His voice had the rounded vowels of a public-school education, and his well-cut, tropical-weight putty-coloured suit was worn with a Sea Island cotton shirt and an Hermes tie.
• The Tonik suits were being worn in the day instead of only in the evenings.
• Only the boots, jeans and braces were revived, no suits were worn .
• A man may try on a suit in the fitting-room, but a suit is bought to be worn .

garment_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• Such a garment may well have been worn by Alfonso III for his coronation.
• The garment was worn with an overdress or bed gown, bunched up the waist in front and falling behind to the hem of the petticoat.
• All garments have been worn in a mixture of British mountain conditions ranging from clear and frosty to driving rain.

uniform_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• The uniform was worn for the first time at Easter.
• Was there not a training school of some kind in north Norfolk where German uniforms were worn ?
• School uniform was always worn , which for the boys meant khaki shirts and trousers.

belt_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• From 1 July 1991 the new seat belt law means seat belts MUST be worn by adults in the back , as well in the front, if they are fitted and available.
• It is surely not just and equitable to reduce the damages if the court is satisfied that as severe, or more severe, damage would have been caused if a seat belt had been worn .
• The white belt is worn by a beginner.

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• My favourite line on the subject came from Michael Grade, who studied the jacket being worn by one of his trendier producers.
• Their range (they also stock aviation jewellery) is very wide, and their jackets can be found being worn by the most distinctive of people.
• "Roxie, you had a tweed jacket hanging in your hall and that tweed jacket was worn by him very recently."

hat_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• But erm certainly with this style of hat was commonly worn I suppose to his and by the people who work on the land, certainly in this part of the world.
• Oh well hats were worn .
• Such hats were worn by the Fulani, a semi-nomadic tribe of cattle herdsmen.

boot_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• "Monkey" boots were worn by girls & kiddies.
• Helmets, gloves, body armour, body belt (kidney belt), goggles and boots have to be worn .
• Boots are worn to protect your shins against the rub of the stirrup leather and iron.

coat_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• The dark blue coat was worn with light blue trousers with a 112 inch stripe down each outseam in the facing colour of the branch of service: for infantry officers, white.
• From the kickoff in '68 to the final whistle in '71 the coat could be worn with pride.
• The white coat was worn with white trousers, without additional white stripes.

dress_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings, with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid (Crowfoot 1952).
• Paramilitary dress was worn and Nazi banners waved.
• A dress can be worn with clumpy men's shoes; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable, roomy and worn by either sex; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down, such as "no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women".

hair_n----------subj_of_passive----------(back to top)

• His thick, almost grey hair appeared to be worn without a parting and stopped at the lobes of his ears.
• Her fair hair was worn in a tight knob at the crown of her head, while ringlets covered her ears in the style made fashionable by Queen Victoria.
• Her hair would have been worn in ringlets, or perhaps plaited and held in place with decorative pins.
• Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant, and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown.

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• The pop singer is interesting and er l er we've got a record, i it could be The Best of Adam Faith and I think every track is practically worn out.
• A large roadside car park has been made and from it a track has been worn to the saddle on the ridge; the steep climb has been helped by this path formed since my first visit.
• After twenty years, the Lytham Road track was badly worn , and by the late Fifties the cars performed ever more alarming rolls.

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• Of course, you get what you pay for, and no-one in his right mind would expect this garment to wear or wash as long, or as well as, a fleece jacket of double the price.
• I found them comfortable and versatile -- in warm weather I washed and wore them immediately and they dried out almost completely within 20 minutes.
• We were discussing the yarn "Hobby" at the club and some members were saying it could be re-used, even though it had been thoroughly steam pressed, worn and washed for years.
• I found them comfortable and versatile -- in warm weather I washed and wore them immediately and they dried out almost completely within 20 minutes.
• I mean this has been worn and washed many times for Charlotte.

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• The technologies considered so far have been those relating to large-scale carpentry and items worn or carried, especially brooches and weaponry.
• Paul's verdict: I found myself opting to wear or carry these simple track-suit-style pants more and more often.
• We departed by the garden staircase, bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried.
• They convey to someone who belongs to the same culture a lot of information about the person who is wearing or carrying them.
• Where there is a pavement or foot path used, do not walk next to the curb with your back from the traffic, look both ways before you step into the road where there is no foot path, walk on the right hand side of the road, it is safer to walk on the side facing on coming traffic, keep as close as possible to the side of the road, take care at right hand bends, keep one behind if that is possible, particularly line heavy traffic on flurry, do not allow children under age five at least out alone on the road, go with them, walk between them and the traffic and always keep tight hold of their hands, if you can't do this then use reigns as security, secure them firmly into the pushchair, do not let them run into the road, always wear or carry something bright or light or reflected within the dark of light, this is especially important, that all uses it it's just the rules I suppose
• Loss or damage to personal effects and baggage taken, sent in advance or purchased on holiday (including clothing and personal effects worn or carried on the person, trunks, suitcases and like receptacles).
• Before the days of banks it was practical to convert wealth into jewellery, which could be worn and carried round easily.

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• Not only do they believe their own PR, they generally eat and wear it too.
• And what millions of us watch on the big screen can influence whole areas of our lives -- from our kitchen design, our holiday destination, our fantasy men, to what we eat and wear and how we'd like to look.
• Not only do they believe their own PR, they generally eat and wear it too.
• Local natives believe that, eaten or worn as decoration, they will act as protection from injury.
• She told him what to wear and eat, when to sleep or make love to her.
• And what millions of us watch on the big screen can influence whole areas of our lives -- from our kitchen design, our holiday destination, our fantasy men, to what we eat and wear and how we'd like to look.
• Local natives believe that, eaten or worn as decoration, they will act as protection from injury.

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• He would see her in the old holey woollies she wore to bed, rather than an old-fashioned nightshirt.
• "I do believe that's what you always wear to bed," he said in amazement.
• That is to wear to bed!
• To wear to bed!
• And some wore black pants to bed cos they didn't recognise them!
• That is a nightshirt he wears to bed.

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• "This is the hat I wore to my wedding."
• Just a few months ago the Queen Mother wore a Hartnell creation to the wedding of Lady Helen Windsor.
• "Dearest Katya," said Lydia with a frozen smile, "is planning on wearing a scarlet dress to the wedding."

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• Maybe she'd always had someone to look after her; he'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life, first his mother and then Margaret, who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening.
• She'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon.
• "You'll have to wear a skirt to the office."
• Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building, and introduced her to the general manager, Tom Rigby, who looked her up and down once and then ignored her.
• DO YOU wake up every morning dreading the decision about what to wear to the office?

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• The Muslim community in Bradford, where Yasmin comes from, is very strong, and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school.
• But he's gotta have shoes that cos, that he can wear with the suit and wear to school, cos he needs that school shoes, I saw the shirt and the tie.
• When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ("What's a frock?" said my son.
• It may sound a bit corny, but ever since I've started to wear my traditional dress to school, I feel so much more comfortable.
• It is highly likely that the decision of the governors of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls to suspend two Muslim girls who wished to wear head scarves to school for being in breach of school uniform rules would also have been unlawful.
• A few girls in my class did a sponsored spell and wore their pyjamas to school!

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• Sloan Wilson did not sneer at it that way in his autobiography, What Shall We Wear To This Party :
• He had never so much as worn a frilled shirt to a party, never indicated in any way that he preferred his balls veiled by lace, never by word or deed indicated that he was not a normal heterosexual.
• You must have got something you wear to parties?"
• Though she had nothing remotely suitable with her to wear to a party, over the past hour or so, as she'd arranged salami slices and stuffed olives and listened to Agnese and Filippo's bubbly chatter, she'd found herself slipping into a party mood.
• "Someone should teach them how to be gracious, how to accept compliments prettily, how never to wear a grey suit to a party however bored one is with designing clothes."

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• It was as if she'd let the qualities of courage and daring, which were only masks she wore to protect herself, slip from her face.
• I looked wildly about me a hundred times, unable to think what to do; then I threw my coat on over my nightdress, pulled woollen socks over the wool trousers I wore to protect me from the cold, and ran to the door, without listening to what his friend was trying to say to me.
• Boots are worn to protect your shins against the rub of the stirrup leather and iron.

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• And you don't need any special clothing: "Just wear what you would wear to work," says Chris.
• While chairman of the health authority he was instantly recognisable by the fresh, home-grown carnation he wore to work every day.
• u It shouldn't matter what you wear to work as long as you get the job done , says Lisa, 49.
• you don't have to worry about what you're going to wear to work.
• I'm not paying twenty quid for a shirt so you can wear to work

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• Richard made the gown I wore to meet Charles and Di at the premiere for The Living Daylights and I felt like a million dollars in it."
• Was this the sort of outfit a woman wore to meet her lover?
• Donna asked, "So what do we wear to meet your child bride?"

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• Surprise made her catch a breath, but it was the swiftly ensuing resentment that held it locked in her lungs for seconds after she should have expelled it as she stared questioningly at Luke Scott, casually elegant in a beautifully made lightweight jacket worn over a pale shirt and obviously expensive trousers with a discreetly fashionable belt.
• His working clothes were bottle-green cords and a russet sweater worn over an open check shirt.
• But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt, which is somewhat smoother and less worn, together with my new pullover -- oh, no, how odd, this is my old pullover -- but -- ah, now I remember, yes, worn over a cotton shirt -- which again is something smooth.
• He was wearing a thick grey cardigan over a white shirt and it reminded her of how chilly the air was in the house.
• Tom O'Neill was in the outer office looking at one of the pictures that lines the walls -- Rena, Hugo's favourite house model, wearing a loose cut trench coat over a tailored shirt and doe-skin pants.
• The Chiefs and notables were gorgeous in mantles of crimson, blue or green velvet, richly embroidered with gold thread, worn over silken shirts; some had lion- or leopard-skin capes draped about their shoulders.
• 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.

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• She wore a scarf over her head and dark glasses.
• On his third raid Fielding wore a sock over his head.
• "A man hears a knock at the door of his country house and opens it to two vicars wearing stockings over their heads.
• All wore hoods over their heads.
• The belt here is hidden under the over fall, and a further garment, a veil, is worn over head and shoulders.
• But I got my own back -- at the time I was writing a column for the Guardian , so I wrote '20 Things You Didn't Know About the Editor of The Sun " -- the Editor of The Sun wears his pyjamas over his head and he has twelve daughters, all called Spot.
• She heard Ben come into the market-room, but when the kitchen door did not immediately open, she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape.
• He ran to the open door to catch up with her when, suddenly, a man wearing a hood over his head pushed past him and nearly knocked him over.
• Their mother (i.e. Surjeet's mother-in-law) kept asking me to wear it over my head.
• Who tried to hide during the 1984-85 miners' strike by wearing a bag over his head?

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• The armourers were the scruffiest erks to be seen anywhere -- untidy, good-natured, mostly wearing leather jerkins over their battle dress (held together with pieces of wire), and mostly in need of a shave as well.
• Rose was wearing a dull black cardigan over a black dress.
• In the early morning light he could see that she wore a black cape over a dark red dress.
• You should have worn a coat over that dress -- the night's not warm enough for an outfit like that."
• Franca did not attempt to wipe away the tears, she let them roll down and drip onto the front of the apron which she was wearing over her brown dress.

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• He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt, which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out.
• He was wearing a silvery Italian suit over a T-shirt which read HONK IF YOU LIKE HUNKS.
• They all wore symbolic black clothes over bright yellow T-shirts and all spoke in Welsh, their statements being translated into English afterwards.

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• He wore an anorak over a wool sweater with a polo neck and he wore tough cord jeans and walking boots.
• He kissed her briefly on the lips and came into the flat, a slightly-built sandy-haired man in his mid-thirties wearing a heavy black overcoat over a sweater and cords.
• He was wearing a waterproof cape over his white sweater and had changed into knee-length rubber boots.

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• Designated use: multi-use windproof trousers -- can be used all year if worn over fleece trousers or climbing tights.
• One was tall and grey-haired, thin but broad-shouldered, wearing a voluminous cricket sweater over baggy grey trousers.
• The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head -- can you imagine going to school like that...

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• Looking now at her plump, well-kept hands, two heavy diamond rings worn above her unexpectedly old-fashioned wedding band it was hard to believe that her mother was a work-bent Ukrainian peasant who still wore a black kerchief over her hair and spoke little English.
• She was older than her brother and she wore a black lace cap over her grey hair.
• When you go to school you will wear a scarf over your hair and you will be taken there every morning by your husband."

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• He waved his arms about a lot, wore suits that my mother's old friend Little jimmy wouldn't have been ashamed to be seen in -- barring the size problem -- and generally did his best to appear flamboyant.
• When they emerged forty minutes later from the second-hand shop she'd taken him to, he wore a tweed suit, laced boots, a heavy overcoat almost ankle-length, gloves and a trilby hat.
• 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.
• In the photograph that the studio had acquired the four men brought to trial in Detroit look out at us almost belligerently announcing their status as ordinary guys; they wear poor suits and no ties, they are unshaven, and they clutch their hats.
• KATE O'MARA wears a navy double-breasted chalk stripe wool suit, GBP325, Aquascutum.
• This firm wears an American suit of clothing.
• They couldn't have been more wrong if they'd worn Father Christmas suits.
• Barefoot, he was wearing the white combat suit of the challenger and holding a gleaming katana -- the sword of the Samurai warriors of ancient Japan.
• But I had decided that I wasn't going to wear the arrow suit for Truro Daine.
• Certainly, the former Harlequins coach, did that at Myreside yesterday afternoon when he had 24 Watson's boys eating out of his hand, even though he was wearing his England track suit.

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• To start with, Alison planned to wear a white evening dress.
• -- She was wearing a turquoise silk dress, her newly washed black hair spilling on to her narrow shoulders.
• I'll wear the blue dress with the lace trim and pretty pearly buttons.
• "Dearest Katya," said Lydia with a frozen smile, "is planning on wearing a scarlet dress to the wedding."
• She wore a black dress, an old thing with slightly tattered lace which filmed about her like some black froth.
• Louise, as beautiful as ever, the lines of her face almost invisible since her most recent facelift, wearing the latest sheath dress from Dior, its narrow shape flattering her slender figure, sat opposite him calmly and charmingly talking about nothing at all.
• She wore a light silk dress and thin shoes, which did not seem at all suitable for a long walk in the snow.
• Hilary wore a shirtwaister dress in multicoloured Indian cotton, three buttons at the neck undone.
• She was wearing a slack blue dress and a straw hat pushed to the back of her head.
• Rosie, who was wearing her best dress, hat and coat for the occasion, said, "We're not getting soaked to the skin for politeness, are we?

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• They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes, and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun; all of them were barefoot, but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow -- the colour, as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out, which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage.
• " Wear a hat with corks, did you?" she teased naughtily.
• He let me wear his hat once, a great honour indeed.
• I SHOULD have worn a hat.
• Leprechauns usually wear a cocked hat, breeches, and shoes with large buckles.
• That road became known as the Great West Road -- the first section later achieved the name of the "Golden Mile'-which was formally opened by King George V ( wearing a bowler hat) in 1925; a year when the Oxford boat sank in the April University Boat Race.
• I wish I could sit at the table and help cut up Annie's food like I used to, and we'd have crackers and we'd wear those paper hats and have them little prezzies from inside the crackers.
• In December at his lodgings in New College Street he shared LSD and a little champagne with his friends, James Merino on the left and Dominique Debastarrechea, here wearing the hat.
• The support staff likewise may also wear many different hats, but can nominally be described as an Office-Manager, Book-Keeper/Administrator, Center Manager/Cook, and Estate Manager.
• He, too, wore a black top hat, a black frock coat and black trousers.

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• I'm going to wear jeans and a white shirt.
• They wore fawn corduroy jeans, sandals and jerseys, Kate's red, Stephen's navy-blue.
• I was glad I wasn't wearing my jeans.
• He was wearing jeans, like her, and a sweatshirt, and she almost laughed.
• She's wearing faded jeans and a long black coat and has a purposeful air about her.
• The next day, although I sprayed the pests, as I knew I must, I stood at arm's length from the compost heap and wore jeans and high-rise trainers.
• It's thought one of the youths is called Mike or Dave, he's white about five foot ten with light curly hair, and was wearing dark jeans, a dark top and a baseball cap.
• The second is also male, 5ft 10in, 18 to 20 years old, of thin build and wore jeans.
• They said your man wasn't wearing jeans, he wasn't gonna let him in, in here.
• He wore his better Jeans and a laundered shirt, open at the neck.

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• Dwarfs sometimes wear uniforms appropriate to their province or city state in the same way as men.
• Male nurses wear prison-officer uniforms.
• Throughout all these Commando and Ranger operations, however, the raiders wore military uniform, although often without their commando shoulder flashes for reasons that will become obvious.
• Pupils must remember that they represent the School when travelling to and from the School and at all times when wearing our uniform.
• He normally didn't like wearing uniforms in films, but wore them with aplomb.
• From the early hours of the morning the unfortunate mali could be seen labouring away, pouring with sweat -- despite the heat he still insisted in wearing his thick serge uniform -- as he constructed a sort of miniature Mount Fuji in the corner of the front lawn.
• Both on duty and off, Morris wore the uniform of a Conservative MP, the double-breasted suit.
• State regiments wear uniforms in the traditional colours of their provinces or cities.
• He normally didn't like wearing uniforms in films, but wore them with aplomb.
• From the ground up to his revolving papier-mache head he is 5ft 7 1/2 in tall, wears a full uniform, and despite being armed -- with a radar gun -- bears no resemblance to Robocop.

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• Neville never was a hippy, he used to hate taking LSD, he used to wear the clothes, but he was a bit too shrewd to fall for that.
• We wear black clothes to remember.
• He wore great clothes.
• He wore his clothes so well, she thought, looking at him; not a bother on him, while she had tried on three different dresses before choosing one in desperation.
• Everyone wore the same clothes, shoes and hairstyles, everyone listened to the same music, went the same places, lived in the same type of houses, and even read all the same books!
• I suppose we must look strange to them, and what must also be strange is the way we are living among them -- no longer apart, but eating their food and often wearing Indian clothes because they are cooler and cheaper.
• I know you think I've been casual about your gown, but when Roman insisted I wear his clothes I couldn't turn him down, could I?"
• It made him feel better when he heard Smallfry mention the book, the special album in which they kept all the photographs of him wearing his best clothes and doing nice things.
• "Robyn, why are you wearing those clothes?
• "I think it's wonderful to watch people running on stage wearing their street clothes.

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• They also want to speak to an elderly man who was wearing a brown jacket and was refused entry to the bank because he arrived just as the robber had left.
• Diana, wearing a pale blue fitted jacket and navy velvet skirt, giggled nervously as she was told exactly where to stand with her husband.
• She wore a well-used wax jacket over tight breeches and riding top boots.
• She was wearing a linen jacket, underneath that a blouse and blue jeans.
• At last there was a knock on the door and a young man entered wearing a battered leather jacket and torn breeches.
• She wore a bulky mock-leather jacket of much the same colour as the local brick, a tweed skirt and even in that light, wrap-around sunglasses.
• "They don't wear tweed jackets and smoke pipes.
• He wears an old-fashioned brown tweed jacket, looks like it has biscuit crumbs sprinkled all over it.
• The attacker is thought to have blonde or peroxide shoulder length hair and was wearing a tweed type jacket.
• One of the DRs wears a civilian black waxed cloth wind jacket.

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• At least if there is a uniform a rule is seen to exist, but it is in schools where there is no uniform but where girls are prevented from wearing trousers that the greatest conflict can arise.
• You remember that he was wearing baggy trousers like a bear's legs?
• Edward Bailey commented "There is no rule against girls" wearing trousers and anyone who says there is is guilty of libel."
• As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town, so he got away through alleys and into the country.
• Swayne wore rust-coloured trousers and a matching pullover, his movements were erratic, rapid yet precise, so that Wycliffe was reminded of a little red monkey.
• Was she wearing trousers?
• She wore trousers and a smock.
• He was wearing light trousers today, and a light blue polo shirt that hugged his figure, revealing the muscles of his torso in precise detail.
• Calm down, cheer up, control your temper, wipe that make-up off, you look like a tart, look at the way you walk, don't wear those trousers, put a dress on, men can't control themselves, it's up to you to take control, love bites are a sign of a man out of control, your sister's a tart, if you lose your name no one will have you, who do you think you are, listen to her -- social life?
• He wore dark trousers with a light cotton shirt.

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• Wear a helmet, especially if using fast roads.
• He would get men to race him, see which ones could outpace him, they'd wear helmets and all look the part.
• They also wore the helmet, like the similarly attired British Transport Police at the main railway station (who are also despised as police marginals).
• The court heard there were four men in the gang, all wearing balaclava helmets and armed with two sawn-off shotguns.
• It was of a man; huge, encrusted with bony protrusions that made the head appear square, as though he was wearing a helmet.
• He was not wearing a crash helmet.
• Thorfinn had not even troubled to wear his helmet.
• Lambert, limping badly, wore a French police helmet, and Dangerfield was wiping mud from his eyes: he had just fallen down.
• Wear a helmet, especially if using fast roads.
• An inquest has heard how a fifteen year old girl died in a fall from her horse -- even though she was wearing a recommended safety helmet.

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• And wear gloves.
• erm Do you have to wear gloves and protective equipment to do these experiments?
• Yes, but particularly with reference to John Major, I think he's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote, and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him, and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and to
• Again wear rubber gloves and repeat the treatment until the wood can absorb no more.
• He was still wearing kid gloves.
• Always wear gloves when gardening.
• But Dot could see how the lady herself wore white cotton gloves to handle the clothing, so as not to touch it directly.
• Secondly, the trigger and belt tracking dial are large enough to adjust quickly, even when wearing gloves.
• They probably wore gloves, too.
• He wears pink rubber gloves, their tops stretched over the overalls' cuffs.

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• He's wearing a matching blue check lumberjack shirt.
• He was wearing a Swindon Town football club shirt.
• The woman was well built too, and the man had a very large stomach and was wearing a baggy shirt which just covered his belly.
• He was wearing a faded blue shirt, an old pair of linen trousers and espadrilles.
• "In fact I don't think I'd even wear a shirt."
• Rory wore an old cheesecloth shirt and cut-off jeans.
• Instead she wore her big baggy khaki shirt over her panties like a dress.
• Not only that, but that team playing at Cardiff Arms Park and wearing red shirts with green collars and redesigned feathers emblem will now be called the Dragons (and will have the dragon emblem on the right arm).
• The youth who fled the scene was wearing a blue checked shirt.
• The dazzling Steve Renouf is expected to team up with Meninga in the centre, and Newcastle's Mark Sargent will wear the No 8 shirt.

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• She was wearing a black nylon coat and a badge that said SHARON LACEY.
• She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood, black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels.
• The dark-haired child was wearing a white woollen coat, white trousers and a blue peaked hat.
• James was wearing a full-length waxed coat.
• When Aisha returned from work, coming through the door weighed down with plastic carrier bags, her coat smelling of perfume mixed with cigarette smoke, I gave a shiver of anger: I wanted to carry shopping bags like that and wear a coat like hers!
• It was much too warm to wear a coat but it would be imprudent to leave her winter coat behind, and nights were always cold.
• I don't often see her in outdoor clothes -- she wore a dark coat and skirt, a shantung blouse and a black straw hat.
• Now he was wearing a coat and hat and carrying a maleta bag and a sawed-off shotgun.
• She wore a tweed coat with a Cairngorm brooch in the lapel and a furry green felt hat.
• He was a bulky young man, who was wearing a black coat and a white shirt; the comparison with a panda was unkind but accurate.

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• And nobody knew anything about spores or farmer's lung or an Everybody are very conscious and they wear masks when they're feeding hay now.
• On old windows, wear a simple dust mask to avoid inhaling dust containing lead.
• We can wear masks and no one will know who we are."
• Was he wearing a mask?
• The popularity of these films has been blamed for the emergence of Ninja gangs in Lusaka suburbs who wear black masks, carry home-made swords, iron bars, clubs and sticks which they use during burglaries and muggings.
• We're all wearing masks.
• Some women can become fixed in the "negative pole" expression of image, however; just as a woman can wear a rigid mask of beauty, so too she can go to the opposite extreme and deliberately make herself ugly in order to protect herself and demonstrate her anger against the world, or, possibly, her dislike of men.
• Due to such severe deprivation of mental stimulation, he had to continually wear an iron mask to prevent him from tearing strips off his own sides with his teeth.
• As I said she wore a mask, and a rich black cloak with white lambswool trimmings.
• The robes were of black or crimson velvet -- over body armour -- and all of those seated at the desks wore identical long masks.

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• The women wore coloured skirts down to their ankles, their earrings and beads jangling as they moved with sinuous grace over the uneven ground.
• While she posed, wearing a red skirt -- obligatory for her dreaded destination&rehy;Sanson sheared her long hair, and Charlotte gave a strand of it to the artist, as a souvenir.
• She was wearing a fashionable knee-length straight skirt, a silk blouse in a vivid jade-green, and slender-heeled shoes.
• I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it.
• Girls at St Saviour's wore dark&rehy;green skirts and jerseys, not their own clothes.
• The girls were in rubber and leather and wore skin-tight skirts and holed black stockings, with white face-slap and bright-red lipstick.
• But ITN man Michael said: "Eventually she was persuaded to wear it and when she turned up at school and saw all the girls wearing skirts she was absolutely relieved."
• She tends to wear full denim skirts with lace borders and her hair falls over her face while she plays.
• Sometimes colleagues may read my signals wrongly; they think that, because I wear short skirts and I'm not afraid to let the conversation get personal, I must be looking for an affair.
• At first she had refused to wear the skirt, preferring her old jeans.

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• He would have attracted less attention if he had worn a red gown and long white beard.
• She herself knew she could not have made much of a showing, bulky as she was, wearing the Peter Robinson gown, let out at the seams, her state disguised only by a light scarf.
• It is in the outpatient department that many people feel particularly vulnerable as they wait in a cubicle, wearing paper gowns with no idea of what is happening, as staff rush around self-consciously doing more important things than talking to a patient.
• In her white hospital gown -- I'm wearing a gown.
• She was wearing a pale pink velvet gown trimmed with grey fur, over a cloth-of-silver undergown.
• So can I start wearing my dressing gown before Christmas then?
• Elinor was wearing an Empire-line gown in the hope of seeing Napoleon.
• Then Susan, 32, who dangled from ropes wearing gown and boots, joked: "They say our marriage is already on the rocks."
• Patrick stood by his window, fully dressed, but still wearing his dressing gown, watching an elegantly dressed meddle-aged couple alight from a gleaning Rolls Royce.
• Most of the other characters in the film were upright to their now expected formulae; Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Connor were members of the staff room -- led by the formidable-as-ever Hattie Jacques, as the maths mistress who wore her gown and mortar board as much in this film as she had worn her matron's uniform in the previous one.

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• Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig, but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever.
• I wore a polyester-type wig like a naff perm and I looked quite hideous."
• "One of them was an old man," Matthew said, "or else he was wearing a wig of white hair."
• My mother wanted to live a posh life and have dinner parties with other rich Jews and cook gefilte fish and wear a wig and dance with fashionable rabbis at weddings, you can imagine how Dad took to that.
• Did you see the bit where what should a man that wears a wig never do?
• The reason why judges and barristers (less than ten per cent of the profession) wear wigs and gowns in court is exactly the same as the reason why professional aircrew wear stripes on sleeves and epaulettes copied from the "eighteenth century fancy dress" of naval officers: in order to be quickly, easily and accurately identified in a crowd.
• While watching TV, Buck sees a show in which a poodle is made to wear a wig, false eyelashes and panties.
• One last memorable portrait to carry away from Dunvegan: Johnson wore his wig turned inside out as a night-cap, and Lady Macleod said, "I have often seen very plain people, but anything as ugly as Dr Johnson with his wig thus stuck on, I never have seen."
• And they'd wear different wigs every day.
• Then the interviewer will turn to Rob -- the other one -- and ask him if he's hot with all that hair, and he'll say "it's my week to wear the wig", and they'll leave the cave.

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• "Nevertheless, when it comes to his own undergarments, her spouse is more circumspect and Miss Hall confides that "he won't wear boxer shorts.
• He wore those new shorts
• They wore short shorts and low-necked blouses and brought cameras to photograph the marketplace."
• Soon the room became so hot with the heat of the lamps, pupils had to strip down to their shirt sleeves and wear shorts when entering the room.
• He is wearing white shorts, and laughter lines run in deep creases by the sides of his eyes.
• It was so hot that Perdita would have liked to have worn shorts or a dress, but her mosquito bites had come up in huge red bumps and were oozing and itching like mad, so she settled for her pale pink jeans and a dark blue shirt.
• In the summer men can wear shorts or whatever they like (and sometimes they look revolting in them, too!) and no one says anything to them about it.
• If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup, you may recall that Pak Doo Ik, the North Korean forward, also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy, so I thought it was worth a try.
• Do many people walk into a city centre police station at 10.00pm wearing shorts and EB's?
• I don't know if you remember but ages ago, round about October time she borrowed some stuff for the Brownies, for erm, for Sian, Sian was going camping and she hadn't got shorts or anything, so she borrowed it off me, I was thinking of Stacey starting, I wanted the t I'm not bothered about the shorts, but I want the T-shirt and I'm just gonna get Stacey the culottes and she can wear her shorts and the cardigan with it buy, when she first starts and then we could, Deana's moving up to Guides this, so she can have that sweatshirt of er, I mean they're nine pound

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• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston, where the attack took place, said the two men, both wearing balaclavas, hurled flaming bottles through one of the van's windows.
• Two men armed with a butcher's knife and wearing balaclavas, forced their way behind the bar of the Vauxhill Arms pub in Gloucester after closing time and forced the landlord to open two tills.
• Later on Saturday two men wearing balaclavas, one armed with a hatchet, entered The Chip Shop at Highcraig Road, Johnstone, threatened the 27-year-old owner and his 42-year-old female assistant.
• Another part of the exhibition is a caseful of just such gifts, presumably dusted down from a very full royal attic: a Maori figure with crossed eyes, a table with cowrie shells hanging from it as from an Australian hat, a fetching Japanese lacquer picnic set and a sinister raffia figure wearing a balaclava.
• He was approached by two men wearing balaclavas who assaulted him.
• The thieves, wearing yellow balaclavas, targeted La Femme in Bridge Road, Blundellsands, near Liverpool, shortly before 3am yesterday.
• During their getaway, the men wearing balaclavas and armed with shotguns hijacked 6 cars, crashing into a lorry at one point.
• Bunny, wearing a knitted Balaclava and carrying a clip board, called out commands to the chief electrician in a voice muffled with pain.
• He was grabbed by a man wearing a black balaclava and pulled to the ground.
• Elstob was brandishing a pick axe handle and both men were wearing balaclavas.

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• In contrast to the Knights of the White Wolf, the armour and weapons of the Knights Panther are of a more traditional nature -- they wear full battle armour and carry tall lances as their main weapon.
• EQUIPMENT : The Reiksguard Knights wear heavy armour and carry a shield, and ride barded Warhorses.
• The first thing you need to know is that when they need to wear armour.
• EQUIPMENT : The Outriders wear light armour and ride barded horses.
• A Halberdier wearing light armour and carrying a shield will therefore cost 7+2+1 = 10 points.
• This special protection is lost if the Orc wears body armour.
• EQUIPMENT : The Knights of the White Wolf wear heavy armour and ride barded Warhorses.
• They wear armour and coloured hats
• EQUIPMENT: The Sea Guards wear light armour and are armed with spears and shields.
• EQUIPMENT: The Reaver Knights wear light armour and are armed with a sword.

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• He had been wearing his Race Train T-shirt, and he had identification in his pocket.
• Next, the biologists discarded the sunglasses and standard laboratory coats, and each wore a t-shirt of a different colour.
• I saw an open shed stacked with timber, graded according to its thickness, and then, as we turned the flint gable, there was Laura crouched before the kiln in a muddle of faggots and fire-irons, her rump in the air, legs bare beneath the sawn-off fringes of her denim shorts, wearing a blue-grey sleeveless T-shirt that had ridden up around her waist.
• He wore a purple t-shirt and jeans.
• Pc Keith Black went into the toilet with Mr. Smith and they found the figure to be Mr. Thurgood, wearing a T-shirt which fitted the soldiers' description.
• Off duty he wears white T-shirts.
• Staff at Presto stores throughout the region wore Yellow Brick Road T-shirts and caps while a charity disco and pea and pie supper was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
• He wore a white T-shirt with nothing over it or under it although it was the depth of winter.
• Wearing an unremarkable stripy T-shirt and jeans, and with his unkempt hair straggling over his broken glasses, Chris doesn't exactly exude wealth.
• My niece is only little, but already she is susceptible to it, wearing T-shirts and baseball caps.

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• THANK you Miss McKenna for your very nice, and sincere comments regarding medals worn with pride.
• Wear the turkey with pride, Mr Nakamura, wear it with pride.
• From the kickoff in '68 to the final whistle in '71 the coat could be worn with pride.
• Wear the turkey with pride, Mr Nakamura, wear it with pride.
• But Mhoira, in and out of the uniform she wore with such pride, was equal to any of them.
• But if Lewis wants to wear the WBC crown with pride, he must set himself aside from Riddick Bowe's yellow-bellied tactics.
• We're in House on Road in Nottingham and reception's open from nine till six every weekday, wear your Pudsey with pride, get the bare necessities.
• The fact that he has been attacked by some elements of the Party as being "too liberal by half" is a badge he should wear with considerable pride.
• She took the kiss as a mark of approval and wore it with pride.
• I wear my shirt with pride: -)

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• Kate wore a cream Tuffin and Foale crepe suit with a flounced jacket, Pagan wore a trumpet-shaped silk dress with leg o'mutton sleeves in Jean Muir's latest pink and grey art-nouveau pattern, and Judy looked unusually demure in a lemon linen suit from Guy's summer collection, with slightly darker shoes and a big-brimmed straw hat.
• There you have it; myself, the captive knitter with short arms, wearing a garment with sleeves that are probably too long even for Ms Average.
• He always wore a plain white shirt with the sleeves rolled back off his splendid forearms, and he had eyes dark enough to look truly black in the lighting of The Bar.
• She wore a cream-coloured cotton frock with large puffed sleeves, sprigged with tiny brown flowers; her stockings were cream-coloured too and on her feet were white, barred shoes.
• Not long after Mrs Bloomer's crusade, the women favoured by pre-Raphaelite painters also took up the cudgels on behalf of dress reformers and wore loose-fitting dresses with low-set sleeves and dropped shoulder lines for maximum movement and comfort.
• He was wearing a faded shirt with the sleeves rolled up and the fabric was damp with sweat.
• He was wearing a leather jacket with one sleeve torn off.
• Boris was a broad-shouldered man wearing a white shirt with the sleeves rolled to show meaty, hair-covered forearms.
• "In the 1930s a commercial traveller staying overnight at the castle informed his host the next day that he had seen an apparition during the night -- a young lady with long blonde hair wearing a gown with green silk puff sleeves.
• He wore a crisp white collarless shirt with the sleeves well rolled up and his baggy grey trousers were held up with a piece of string.

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• He is wearing a faded navy-blue trench-coat with a collar that curls shrunkenly upwards.
• She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar.
• Dot was surprised to find herself wearing a large pink woollen nightgown with embroidered collar whose gathered sleeves were so long that her hands were lost.
• He was wearing a grubby trench coat with the collar turned up so I still could not get a good look at him, but there was no mistaking his dimensions.
• He was the last man in England wearing a pale blue shirt with white collar and cuffs under his dark blue suit.
• If you insist on wearing a made-up tie, wear a shirt with a turned-down collar, not a wing collar.
• Not only that, but that team playing at Cardiff Arms Park and wearing red shirts with green collars and redesigned feathers emblem will now be called the Dragons (and will have the dragon emblem on the right arm).
• The child had worn a purple suit with a lace collar.
• In summer we wore candy-striped dresses with Peter Pan collars.
• "I will wear a navy-blue overall with a checked collar and cuffs, and a little badge saying, "I'm Anna.

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• XLR 8 woven multicoloured cotton jacket, GBP49.99, worn with a black skirt, GBP17.99, from Empire.
• She was wearing a grey dress with a wide skirt.
• She was wearing a blue costume with a slit skirt that opened when she crossed her legs.
• With its pretty round neck, softly padded shoulders and front-pocket detail, it looks great worn with a skirt or trousers.
• Vanilla silk dupion mini dress with shield of beading worn with long chiffon skirt by Louise Verity (Vanilla dress GBP530), skirt GBP380), full length veil by Louise Verity (GBP65), earrings by Van Peterson (GBP110)
• If you are shy of creasing clothes, wear a pure linen jacket with a linen blend skirt.
• But this shirt could be worn with the skirt, couldn't it?
• She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt.
• After a reception at Lythe Hill Hotel, the bride and bridegroom left for a honeymoon in Southern Ireland, the bride wearing a lavender-coloured wool jacket with cream skirt, shirt and matching shoes.
• "I'll spend quite a lot on, say, a Mondi jacket, but will wear it with cheaper skirts from Marks & Spencer and Principles.

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• The man wore an old grey suit with a white shirt and no tie.
• Like a navy suit worn with a check shirt and a knitted tie -- it is classic but not inhibited, and to me that's real class."
• She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties' version of casual wear; but, of course, when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt, detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand.
• As a rule, a striped tie should never be worn with a striped shirt, although Paul Smith frequently breaks that one with gusto.
• Mark and Alexander, both nephews of the bridal couple, wore seersucker suits with cream silk shirts, and carried ring cushions.
• Miss Selfridge in Church Street came up with a Western casual outfit comprising leather ranchero jeans and waistcoat, worn with a denim type shirt and white body, and a sparkly short chemise in dark green sequins.
• They had sort of er er rather pretty blue er suits they used to wear with white shirts and red ties.
• His voice had the rounded vowels of a public-school education, and his well-cut, tropical-weight putty-coloured suit was worn with a Sea Island cotton shirt and an Hermes tie.
• Naturally it should be clean and unrumpled and worn with a clean shirt and shoes.
• He wore dark trousers with a light cotton shirt.

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• Boardman is shown wearing a duvet with the logo in one of the expedition photographs.
• Boardman is shown wearing a duvet with the logo in one of the expedition photographs.
• The group -- which intends to donate all proceeds to Cancer Research, the MacMillan Nurses and the Special Baby Care Unit -- is looking for sponsors, and are more than willing to wear sweatshirts with logos on them.
• One wears a blue boiler suit with a white logo.
• One wears a blue boiler suit with a white logo.
• Later, when we were helping William take the Jet Ski out of the water, some very loud people -- all wearing black leather jackets with BMW logos -- arrived with a gleaming black Range Rover and a big black ski boat.

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• Three of the youths, aged 16-20, wore black duffel coats with the hoods pulled up to hide their faces.
• No shots were fired by the robber who was white, 6ft tall and wore a blue duffle coat with the hood up and a balaclava, gloves, light-blue trousers and white trainers.
• She was wearing a navy blue duffel coat with a tartan-lined hood, black stockings and pointed shoes with very high heels.
• Being higher than the policemen on the ground, I could see that most of the action was down to a half-a-dozen women wearing anoraks with the hoods up.
• He had short fair hair and was wearing a black sweat shirt with a hood and blue jeans.

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• She wore a naval greatcoat with brass buttons and some sort of goggles on her head.
• How can I go out and pursue a love-affair wearing a shirt with no buttons on it!
• Crilly wears a smart blue shirt with the buttons done to the neck and a pair of Italian trousers stolen from a shop in Covent Garden.
• She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama's flat.
• He marched past Jean; he had made no attempt to dress for the occasion and wore a grey-green Harris tweed jacket with bone buttons and light green polyester trousers.
• Baldoni was a pudgy, balding man wearing a blue blazer with five silver buttons, a canary-yellow pullover and a red tie.
• She was wearing peach silk camiknickers with tiny pearl buttons and trimmed with peach lace.

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• In the Enclosure ladies will wear formal day dress with hat which must cover the crown of the head.
• She wore a smart blue costume with a tiny hat tilted over one eye.
• Real supermodels do not have tearful mothers, but then real supermodels know the difference between a full turn and a Paris turn and would never need to be told to wear black gloves with a black hat or to stand up straight instead of slouching.
• The velvet ones are the ultimate show-stoppers and best worn with a top hat, a velvet choker... and not much else.
• Mrs Quigley was wearing a loose white robe with a hat and a veil rather like a bee-keeper's.
• Wear it with a hat and a sunshine smile!
• Especially in recession cos ladies think better to have a nice navy cardigan I can wear with this hat .
• Gentlemen will wear morning dress with top hat, or service dress.

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• There are tight, slashed sheaths, short or long, and for the truly grand occasion in draughty manors or chateaux the Nineties balldress has a huge satin skirt, worn with a soft cashmere sweater or a tight ribbed lurex cardigan.
• He was wearing a grey suit with a light polo-neck sweater which made him look younger and at the same time more intimidating than he had the day before.
• He was wearing jeans with a dirty sweater and thought no one would know he was a policeman.
• He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
• The first time I wore jeans I didn't dare wear them with a sweater.

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• Several delegates turned up to the banquet wearing dinner jackets with camouflage bow ties and cummerbunds.
• He had had his hair cut short -- not a crop, more like a soldier would have it -- and he wore a suit with a union jack tie left over from his brief mod-revival period.
• Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the suit evolved into styles which survive, if at all, only as formal dress -- the evening tailcoat now worn with white tie, the morning coat often used at formal weddings, and the rarely seen frock coat.
• He listens to early 70's progressive rock, not contemporary rap music -- and he wears a denim shirt with a tie -- the clothes of a 35 year old trying to get a job in a suburban jeans boutique.
• Driving one of those along one of them highways wearing a drape suit with no tie, like Richard Widmark, with the radio on real loud listening to Benny Goodman.
• His taste was individual: he had a pink suit and matching overcoat, both of thick wool, that cost him 3000 Marks (the fee for a three-act ballet); they were worn with an orange tie.
• Urquhart had come straight from the office and was still wearing a grey suit with a red tie.

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• But by 1786 he was given carte blanche in his official dress and so adopted a long double-breasted frock coat of dark green material, worn with a wide white cravat and striped trousers.
• He wore a silk shirt with a cravat tucked in round his thin neck, and elegantly uncrumpled linen trousers.
• At first the collars stood vertically, but for more comfort, the front edges were turned down to form wing collars, and were worn with simpler cravats.

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• Worn with jeans the all-in-one looks as though you're wearing a regular vest.
• Made in machine-washable 50% cotton, 50% polyester mix, it looks good worn with jeans or as a beach cover-up.
• The early morning sun was already gathering heat as they left the ship behind, anchored in the now-distant bay below, and she was glad she had chosen to wear the thin jade silk blouse with her white jeans.
• "Here in the South of France," she told Moira, "a lot of baggy blouses are being worn with jeans... which reminds me!
• If you buy a suit for a friend's wedding, could you wear the jacket with jeans or plain twill pants?

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• Although they were too short in the arm so that his lean wrists protruded like those of an overgrown schoolboy, he wore them with a certain panache, as if this unorthodox working garb, so different from the regulation white coats of the rest of the Laboratory staff, symbolised that unique blend of scientific skill, experience and flair which distinguishes the good Document Examiner.
• She might not be beautiful, but she wore her clothes with typical French panache.
• Her long hair, shining gold, was swept back and caught at the nape of her neck with a bow, make-up, expertly applied, accentuated the classically beautiful lines of her face, and she wore her well-cut suit with all the panache that was expected of her.

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• Yeah but can you wear them with tight leggings on?
• Well they wear them with these leggings don't they?
• I wear a greenish Barbour jacket with tight op-art leggings.

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• You wouldn't wear the same jewellery with a jog suit as with a city suit, would you?
• Waistcoats or sleeveless pullovers sometimes worn with suits, though you couldn't see them when the top button was done up.
• But he's gotta have shoes that cos, that he can wear with the suit and wear to school, cos he needs that school shoes, I saw the shirt and the tie.
• She'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door, which didn't surprise me, by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers (nobody wears trainers with a suit any more).
• Say wear those, cos that's what she was gonna wear Christmas Day with her shell suit, I thought
• American persons who wear training shoes with suits and fur coats cannot be taken seriously.

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• Lots of skirts are beginning to be longer, a berry pattern worn with a long lean cardigan would be splendid.
• She was a large woman, wearing a blue cotton dress with two woollen cardigans, one white, and one red, on top of each other, although the weather was still hot.
• Jane surprised Juliana by pointing her towards leggings and tapered trousers worn with outsized cardigans and sweaters.

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• If you wear short skirts with opaque tights and clumpy shoes, that's a slightly different look.
• I was not from a religious background, and I had previously thought that anyone who went to the mikva had to wear ghastly old-fashioned dresses with thick tights and live in a Yiddish-speaking ghetto!
• She wore a light grey dress with matching tights and shoes, and an amethyst-coloured cardigan in cashmere to match the colour of the long nails on her pale hands.

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• The stage costumes were ornate, the hemline above the knee and worn with knickers massed with frills so that no outline of the leg could be seen.
• My first year at Grange Hill, right, you know when I used to wear boxer shorts with no knickers on underneath?
• It was the hand of a child who goes to dancing class and wears frilled petticoats with knickers to match.

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• "Why do all foreigners think we wear those damned silly hats with corks?"
• " Wear a hat with corks, did you?" she teased naughtily.
• "No, I did not wear a hat with corks!" he refuted disgustedly.

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• So, if you ever see anyone roaring along the street on a motorbike wearing a suit of armour with a carpet in his mouth and being pelted with armadillos, you'll know what he's been up to...
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Azhag wears a suit of light armour and carries a shield.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : The Emperor wears a suit of heavy armour and carries a sword.
• "And wear a suit of armour and carry a gun," Rose called out sarcastically, "he might hurt you."
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Marius wears a suit of heavy armour and rides an armoured Warhorse.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Kurt Helborg wears a suit of heavy armour and carries a sword.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Magnus wears a suit of heavy armour with shield and carries a sword.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Boris wears a suit of heavy armour and carries a shield.
• I played Knights with my brothers and sisters, wearing a suit of plastic armour and a helmet with a visor.
• WEAPONS/ARMOUR : Aldebrand wears a suit of heavy armour and rides an armoured Warhorse.

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• They are of different ages and wear a variety of clothing.
• This firm wears an American suit of clothing.
• Instead, wear several light layers of clothing that can easily be added or removed as you walk.
• Wearing eight layers of clothing including a duvet, I was almost pleasantly warm flogging up to the bottom of the crag.
• Miss Pamela Lyall, who sat beside him and talked carelessly, represented the modern school of thought in that she was wearing the barest minimum of clothing on her sun-browned person.
• I would wear extra layers of clothing and pull the sleeves of my sweater down to hide my white, numbed fingers.
• I'd be concerned as to whether I was wearing more layers of clothing than the other women, and whether anyone had noticed.
• You know er personally attached to the grave, or go on a guided tour, and er, like you've got to wear certain bits of clothing, you gotta be like, you gotta be properly dressed, er, you're not allowed to eat or drink in there, there's all these things, like, you know, really
• "Surely someone wearing some sort of protective clothing, breathing apparatus, that sort of thing, could get close enough to get a sample?"
• Did you have to wear any other sort of special clothing?

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• And is he wearing a pair of boring old jeans?
• "Ellen, she wears bits of jeans and bits of T-shirts like the rest of the group.
• He wore a pair of faded blue jeans and a rugby shirt.
• He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they'd never seen an iron, and a grey shirt, the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer.
• He was wearing a pair of faded blue jeans, a white shirt and a black leather jacket.
• She was wearing a dirty old pair of jeans and blue canvas sneakers.
• From the waist-down I intend to wear a pair of blue jeans with the possible added attraction of whatever I manage to spill down them tonight in the pub.
• And he was shown wearing a pair of collosal flared jeans that left one simply astonished.
• He turned quickly to the voice and there was Slater, bounding down the steps of Holborn Library, wearing a pair of one-and-a-half-legged jeans, with a shiny black shoe on one foot and a knee-length boot on the other; the jeans were cut to suit, so that one leg ended normally, in a stitched hem over the shoe, while the other leg came to a frayed stop just above the top of the boot.

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• Did you notice how their attacker with long hair seemed to crouch down and try to catch the ball every time a ball came near, Fairclough was excellent at marking him, I think they wore the same pair of shorts!
• Hugh wore a pair of neat white shorts which made him look ready for tennis.
• "That's enough of that," Ross told them firmly as he threw aside the sheets, revealing the fact that he was wearing a pair of boxer shorts.
• I mean, my legs have rarely seen a Bic razor you know, I'm gonna wear a pair of shorts in the summer, I might shave 'em, but I
• He wore a pair of khaki shorts and a faded blue shirt, with sandals on his feet.
• Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile.

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• You resist change (ie travel the same way to work, read the same newspaper, wear the same sort of clothes, have fixed routines/habits, stick to familiar foods, stick to the same circle of friends).
• People who played golf did, of course, and rich people, but the majority of people wore the same sort of clothes all the time.
• STAINI RACK NUSVIODON Experiencing Staini Rack Nuul and then realizing that one must continue in the same outworn fashion because the alternatives are too frightening, or because one is too weak to change; wearing a suit of clothes at which one sees strangers looking askance
• She had simply worn a lot of clothes, and kept moving.
• you've got to have the tourist there, it's a I find, tourists, they always wear the wrong sort of clothes.
• When eventually he returned to the hotel, wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own, Minton asked where he had been.
• The country women are wearing the sort of clothes my grandmother wore in the 1920s and 1930s, pinafores tied over rid-calf-length frocks, topped with cardigan and headscarf.
• She was wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together, but they did.
• He wore the police issue of corduroy clothes and heavy clogs, but when he saw Joe watching him he struck a pose, one hand on his hip and the little finger of the other crooked genteelly beside the iron cup.
• They're all wearing the same sort of clothes -- black, with these black hats -- even the girls.

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• He preferred life at court to the hardships of campaigning; he liked to deck himself in strings of precious stones and belts studded with priceless gems; he wore clothes of the finest silk and from each ear lobe he hung a single pearl of remarkable size.
• She was ready for Stephen promptly at eleven, wearing a summer dress of wild silk in a rich pink-peach colour.
• Slender and demure, she wore a simple ao dai of brown silk, and the serene beauty of her delicate golden face belied her years.
• A generously proportioned blonde, she wore a blouse of thin white silk with outrageous decolletage and virtually nothing underneath.
• He was wearing a dressing gown of black silk with purple facings, drinking chocolate from a white porcelain cup.
• Fei Yen had dressed quite simply, in a peach ch'i p'ao, over which she wore a long embroidered cloak of white silk, decorated with stylised bamboo leaves of blue and green and edged in a soft pink brocade that matched the tiny pink ribbons in her hair and set the whole thing off quite perfectly.
• Tamar was lying on one of the twin beds wearing a pair of silk lounging pyjamas.

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• I now wear a pair of baggy trousers tied with a string at the waist such as the Punjabi peasant women wear, and their kind of knee-length shirt.
• They had never had an argument, apart from one occasion in 1956, when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers.
• He was wearing a pair of old baggy trousers, a dirty white singlet and a large and handsome red silk cravat fastened round his neck.
• She was wearing a pair of off-white trousers, which she had cuffed as much as she could at the ankles because of the heat, and a plain navy-coloured T-shirt, neither of which sported designer labels.
• He was wearing a pair of his customary white trousers and a plain white shirt, rolled back to the elbows, with a black belt at his waist and a pair of shiny black shoes.
• He was wearing a pair of crumpled pyjama trousers, tied at the waist with a white cord.

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• After turning the sausages and prodding the briquettes again he rested his arms on the railing and looked out over Central Park, his eyes screwed up against the sun even though he was wearing a pair of prescription sunglasses.
• The dead woman was wearing a pair of sunglasses.
• To top things off, she wore the sort of sunglasses most people thought were old-fashioned in 1958 but now cost about fifty quid a go, and nearly a furlong of white chiffon wrapped around her head snood-like.

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• Although women may wear versions of the male suit they feel that they must not ape male styles of behaviour, but have to find some way of being feminine and demand respect.
• I wear a lot of suits... [with]... a nice blouse or a sweater.
• He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit, pinstriped shirt, spotted tie and Gucci shoes; or perhaps he has been home and changed, and is now sporting yellow cords, a maroon V-necked jersey, and highly polished brown brogues.
• He wears the kind of exaggerated Giorgio Armani suits which never quite blended into the Govan landscape.
• Stuart was wearing the trousers of his work suit, but he'd changed his shirt, and he had an apron over the top.
• Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained.

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• "whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt".
• whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt.
• To find out more about the fitting and wearing of seat belts and road safety in general, please contact your Road Safety Officer through your local Council, or, in Scotland, through your Regional Council offices.
• "requiring a seat belt" Means per regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles ( wearing of Seat Belts) Regulation 1982: "The classes of vehicle mentioned in regulation 4 are (a) a vehicle to which Regulation 46 of the Construction and Use Regulations applies (see later); and (b) a vehicle which is equipped with anchorage points and seat belts and to which that Regulation would apply if it were not for the circumstances that the vehicle --
• "whilst not wearing a prescribed type of seat belt".

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• He was wearing some sort of outlandish costume and his lips were rouged.
• The place seems to enshrine for the Swiss their national ideals from the earliest days of the Confederation onward, and there is an element of pilgrimage attendant on the crowds of citizens from all parts of the country, wearing many varieties of national costume, who come here, ferried across from Brunnen by relays of lake steamers, to join in the observations of the day, commemorating the solemn oath of 1307 which confirmed the earlier League Covenant of 1291 to defend inherited liberties.
• Not even poverty, for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes -- except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to GBP18 a week -- by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled "artisan", who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work, and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his, still less his family's, next meal was to come from.
• I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West -- from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats, down to modern trainers on their feet.

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• If you can wear 500lbs of jewellery
• She doesn't wear a lot of jewellery, she is an active working lady -- and of course, she is a princess.
• They all wore a great deal of jewellery.
• Do not wear lots of obvious jewellery when you are out.

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• Eminent Victorians and gardeners who visited her by now famous Munstead Wood home found her wearing two pairs of spectacles.
• He was in his late twenties with pale skin, prematurely thinning hair and wore a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles which made him look studious.
• He was wearing a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles.

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• 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.
• Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth.
• He wore a heavy cloak of dark cloth that came down to his ankles.
• He peered narrowly to his left, and the hoardings thrust their temptations at him, a long giant suntanned woman wearing three scraps of cloth, an enormous car made out of sunset, a cigarette several times as long as he was tall.

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• This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years -- one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs!
• She wore the sort of black fishnet stockings that used to feature largely in fifties' films involving French tarts.
• When obliged to venture out, he covered himself with a Morocco robe and mask, and wore six pairs of stockings along with several fur hats.

outfit_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• I believe that you have to be tall to wear the kind of outfits that I do.
• They diss whatever takes their fancy, while "the mole" flicks her hair and wears lots of silly outfits -- just like on photo shoots.
• She wore a kind of schoolkid outfit -- blouse and tie, cheerleader's pleated skirt, bobbysox.

sock_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car, but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne.
• The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks.
• Most people will be happy with one pair of good loop-stitched socks inside their boots, but if you are used to wearing two pairs of socks, then take them with you.

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• Take care when handling Primula obconica or wear a pair of cotton gloves to avoid any possible skin rash.
• The BMA also stated that the Department of Health recommended universal precautions: wearing of gloves for all invasive procedures.
• Best studied as loose sheets in a box wearing a pair of white gloves rather than as framed and glazed images, they explore different shades of white and frequently incorporate the artist's name.

uniform_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• They would automatically be included in the conditions of service including wearing of uniforms and opportunities for promotion.
• We all wear mutated versions of the school uniform and platform shoes.
• Wearing specific copies of uniforms also gives children the opportunity to try out occupational roles, such as astronauts, or nurses as well as fancy roles like robots, or witches.

shoe_n----------PP_of----------(back to top)

• A place that people come up and give you double your washing powder, where, when you wear a certain pair of shoes, your sports performance will reach the dizzy heights of your professional heroes, where everyone has perfect teeth.
• HE WAS NOT ALLOWED to go to school again until Thursday morning, by which time the missing button had been replaced on the collar of his shirt and he was wearing a pair of smart new shoes of polished black leather and knee-length grey socks with a dark red band around their tops.
• He wore a pair of grey shoes, baggy white trousers and what appeared to be a red tuxedo.
• He's wearing a pair of slick-soled shiny leather shoes.

sleeve_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars, as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings: they should play to the cameras, should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves, and should never make the mistake of reading their questions.
• Pattern drawings of the braid knot ranking worn on the overcoat sleeves: top left to bottom right -- general, colonel, lieutenant-colonel, major, captain, lieutenant.
• Jarman does not so much wear his homosexuality on his sleeve as brandish it like a day-glo banner.
• It was the first time he admitted to anyone other than himself his burning desire to hold the reins of Prime Ministerial power, yet with Landless, who wore his naked ambition on his sleeve, he felt no embarrassment in the confession.
• A faith worn on the sleeve, to be seen and not hidden; a faith that touches every detail of life; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate; a faith that knows how and what to celebrate; a faith that earthquakes, terrorists, cholera, drought, power cuts, water shortages, poverty and bad housing will never shake.
• He went on to describe how Jean-Claude had starved himself, how much weight he had lost and in what condition were the nerves he wore on his sleeve.
• The reason why judges and barristers (less than ten per cent of the profession) wear wigs and gowns in court is exactly the same as the reason why professional aircrew wear stripes on sleeves and epaulettes copied from the "eighteenth century fancy dress" of naval officers: in order to be quickly, easily and accurately identified in a crowd.
• Hearts will definitely not be worn on sleeves this season (Harpers)
• While most of her peers wear their hearts on their sleeves and parade their differences by churning out variations on the boss sound of the day, this Boston-based denizen sculpts seemingly light and sweet guitar-pop tunes that have spikes of anger and disenchantment buried deep inside them.
• Sir: Your special report on the green revolution and how the investment industry is now wearing an ecological heart on its sleeve (27 September) was timely.

wrist_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• He wore a gold watch on his wrist; fine, gold hairs curled over the white, nylon strap.
• You will need to wear a watch to time the starts; this should be worn on the wrist of your right hand, with the face on the inside, so that in the final seconds of a frantic starboard tack start it can easily be read whilst in the sailing position.
• They approached a blank stone wall and the lad touched certain buttons upon the contraption he wore on his wrist.
• He wore a steel bracelet on his wrist -- something to do with being a Sikh, Nutty understood, with rain, and she had Midnight to ride.
• In her coffin she wore his photograph on her wrist, above Prince Albert's dressing-gown and other treasured souvenirs.
• The second mugger was black, taller than his accomplice and stocky wearing a bracelet on his wrist.
• The Polar Pacer's large face display is worn on the wrist like a watch.
• He was wearing a pale-blue safari-style jacket, belted at the last hole, short-sleeved to display the diamond-faced gold Rolex worn on one beefy wrist.
• It's a small stretchy band, normally worn on the wrist, with a single wire of about six feet and a crocodile clip which you attach to a metal part of your office, that is, desk or radiator but not the computer.

finger_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• It was all much as it had been the first time, only evening instead of morning; and Emily stood by herself as before, and now he knew why, wearing his ring on another finger.
• 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.
• The scruffy snatcher, who wore a ring on every finger, forced her way into the house after Nicola answered the door.
• The representation of endless time by a snake swallowing its own tail and bearing the legend "My end is my beginning" occurs later in rings worn on the finger, such as that possessed by Mary, Queen of Scots.
• There was a thin silver ring of the type small girls wear on the fourth finger.
• Jean Campbell, in 1817, was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order, eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men, one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman, and had left home.
• But the wedding ring was not always worn on the third finger of the left hand.
• Ben, watching him, saw once again how the light seemed trapped by the matt black surface of the heavy iron ring he wore on the index finger of his right hand.
• These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger, although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck, or simply reserved for a leisured elite.
• now it is worn on the third finger of the left hand where a vein of love was believed to run straight to the heart.

head_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Out of respect for the city which had once held the Temple and would, when the Messiah came, hold it again, the girls wore kerchiefs on their heads, knotted with a modesty that made it hardly possible to tell if they were dark or fair.
• "Only if I wore it on my head."
• I know a fair amount of water gets chucked around, and at some point I think you are expected to wear your underpants on your head.
• Without the proposed Yanomami Park to protect them, these boys ( wearing on their heads, as they do, their pet marsupial rats) could be part of the last generation of their people in Brazil.
• There are people who never leave home without one, while others feel ridiculous wearing something on their head.
• She was in all her bridal finery, although her son was already born, poised stiff on her arm in a dress of the same stuff, and both of them were wearing starburst crowns on their heads.
• He normally never wears anything on his head --" He broke off as Buckmaster reappeared in the doorway.
• (c) What was Lenin wearing on his head?
• The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head, the woman a book on hers, where they cannot be used, and the monk looks on with indifference.
• He wore a cap on his head ('I even capitalized on my semi-baldness by signing with Parmalat to wear a cap with their name on it') and my memory is of a certain artificial constraint on the part of many in paddock and pit-lane in approaching him.

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• In 1571 there was a Law "Every male person not possessed of 20 Marks rental should wear on Sundays and Holy Days when not on travell a wooden knit cap on pain of forfeiting 3s. 4d. a day."
• But he was writing from a world in which Riva only meant coastline and Best was something worn on Sundays.
• A good friend of mine, in the same set for physics and chemistry, grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars, which we have to wear on Sundays, and made them into little points."
• Rather, she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps (most likely) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom, chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays.

clothing_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time.
• Among the first people known to have used pearls for jewellery were the ancient Egyptians, who wore them as pendants to earrings and threaded onto necklaces alongside cowries, coral, scarabs and precious stones certainly as early as the middle of the second millennium B.C. Tomb paintings depict them wearing pearls on their clothing and chest-ornaments of mother-of-pearl suggest that they were already exploiting the Red Sea fisheries, later mentioned by Strabo and other Classical writers, by the twelfth dynasty.
• The Cagots lived a peculiar life outside society, without rights but exempt from taxes, wearing a badge on their clothing to indicate their standing, forbidden to walk barefoot, unable to hear mass with their fellow Christians.
• The same problem arises where a person is wearing an insulting emblem on his clothing.
• Nick's association with Freixenet, which will see him wearing the Freixenet logo on his tennis clothing throughout 1992, enhances that involvement.

foot_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• I like wearing sandals on me feet,
• What was he wearing on his feet?
• In the rest of Europe, what you wear on your feet is seen as a crystal-clear signal of your professional status.
• It was impossible, from this distance, to see what he was wearing on his feet, but it seemed likely that he was one short of a full complement of shoes, because in his right hand he was holding a large, brown, elastic-sided boot.
• Either go barefoot or wear shoes on both feet.""
• The student sons and daughters of the curators wear such items on their feet and talk about Madonna and Terminator, so it's time for a rethink.
• What was she wearing on her feet?
• "Do you mean," said Robert, "those people who wear peculiar shoes on their right feet?"
• He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit, silk shirt and tie, and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet.
• Barbara Bush was cosy and Mumsy with lots of grandchildren and a careless habit of wearing different coloured espadrilles on her feet; Hillary Clinton is the cool, radical feminist with an independent mind.

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• She wasn't coming out, she like going, she wears and wears them on her back and then she's just knackered and knackered .
• Since tigers are said usually to attack humans from the rear, Sunderbans workers have been issued with plastic face masks to be worn on the back of the head.
• He wears a brown rucksack on his back.
• Tigers stalking workers have not attacked those wearing face-masks on the back of their heads.
• Until now, Gemma's had to be fed through her nose, using a naso-gastric tube attached to a pack which she wears on her back for 16 hours a day.
• They were never essential but always worn on the back of the head.
• He wore a handle on the back of his costume, stitched there by his hard-driven mother herself because she wasn't going to have some theatrical costumier treating her son as if he were a sequin.
• Then, in August 1928, Arsenal took the field at Hillsborough wearing numbers on their backs, while on the same day, Chelsea, at home, were doing the same -- at Chapman's suggestion.
• "Black web, red spider at the centre, worn on the back of the left hand?"
• The masks were introduced in 1986: it was argued that since tigers normally attack prey from behind rather than face-to-face, a mask worn on the back of the head should be a deterrent.

uniform_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• You will now have a red, white and blue carnation -- ready to wear on your uniform.
• The exact provenance of the "Desert Rat" formation sign as worn on uniforms is still not entirely clear, and several different wartime variants exist.
• I think my first thought was a black armband to wear on my uniform I was so proudly wearing at the time of the news.
• They reacted by inventing ways of avoiding teachers' authority, escaping from supervision and doing the things which they valued most: smoking, drinking, swearing and wearing their own variation on the school uniform.

elbow_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• In the ruins of The Hangman's Arms they would find a green canvas portmanteau, a brush-and-comb set in a plastic case and a duffle-coat (lacking toggles), some wear on elbows.
• "And some wear on the elbows."
• Duffle-coat (lacking toggles) some wear on elbows.
• Various papers, duffle-coat (lacking toggles) some wear on elbows.

shoulder_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem, that mythical beast, the Wyvern of Wessex, half dragon, half eagle, that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles?
• Bde. patch is worn on the right shoulder of the desert combat suit and the sand-coloured "woolly pully", partly above the badge of rank on the latter.
• It came with the stripes he wore on his shoulder.
• She wore an antique brooch on one shoulder, and her hands, discreetly beringed, were folded in her lap, and one wrist had been bandaged.
• The one who wore on his blue shoulder flash the insignia of major's rank had shaken his hand and grinned a supercilious smile.
• The Princess of Wales has no GCVO yet, though she was admitted to the Royal Family Order (the small ribbon brooch worn on the left shoulder) soon after her marriage (before November 1981).

occasion_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• They deteriorated with time, and the only way to prolong their life was to store them carefully in airtight containers and only wear them on special occasions.
• He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion.
• Norms of dress provide guidelines for what to wear on particular occasions.
• The complex folds introduced by Augustus were simplified in succeeding centuries, and eventually the toga was evidently only worn on formal occasions.
• Some of the guests during the Mayor's dinner that night at the Guildhall enquired after the history of the Order of the Peacock (Third Class), and although it gave Gerald some considerable satisfaction to explain how he had come by the distinction and indeed the Queen's permission to wear it on official occasions, he felt one or two of his colleagues had been less than awed by the tarnished peacock.
• He requested permission to be allowed to wear his new award on those occasions when it stipulated on the bottom right-hand corner of invitation cards that decorations and medals should be worn.

shirt_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The only incongruous note was a cheap round badge, enamelled in red and yellow, that he wore on his shirt, which bore the legend "Just Say No!".
• Middlesex's players will wear the Lucozade logo on their shirts, although their president Denis Compton was the original "Brylcreem Boy" in the 1950s.
• They are paid vast amounts of cash, to wear a little sticky label on their shirts; even getting a hair cut is big money.
• TSB's public affairs manager Laura O'Connell had a straight answer for the choice of a fictional team to wear the TSB logo on their shirts.

night_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• I'm not at all happy about the way he washed the clothes he was wearing on Friday night."
• The starting point is really what you wear on the night.
• Christian Lacroix's C'est la Vie dress: Sylvie Guillem wore it on the night
• During this period Stella is in hospital as she is in labour and Stanley changes into the marriage pyjamas that he wore on his wedding night as celebration.
• "No, I know he's got a navy blue one but he wasn't wearing it on Friday night."
• Every evening he would come down wearing the black cashmere jacket he had worn on the first night, and in a mood that was somehow expectant.
• "I won't tell anyone," said Gabriel, "but you ought to be wearing a cloak on a night like this."
• Her long fair hair was coiled demurely at the nape of her neck, and her nails were carefully cleansed of the scarlet polish she had worn on Saturday night.
• I'd wear my shopping trophies on Saturday night, and over the next week...
• It is that forensic report and another on the comparison of blood samples from the victim and on a tissue found in one of Beattie's jackets, but not the one he was wearing on the night of the murder, which those trying to clear his name now want released.

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• "I daresay that girl wears a bikini on the beach, but her father will make her go veiled in Fez.
• He blushed, like a gangly adolescent Blanche once caught ogling her breasts when she wore a bikini on the beach.
• He must have worn those jeans on countless beaches and fishing trips.
• But the pure Marxism-Leninism of Albania's then president, the late Enver Hoxha, decreed that shorts could only be worn on the beach.

face_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Taylor, however, is hoping that "Gazza" may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far.
• He wears a sad expression on his face,
• However, the conditional statement wears its meaning on its face, as much as any statement does.
• She used the same lines over and over again, wearing a fixed smile on her face.
• Though Todi in later centuries was to be a Ghibelline city -- and still wears on its face some Ghibelline emblems -- it was one of many in Umbria in earlier centuries which was loosely embraced by the papal umbrella.
• I wear an amazed smile on my face.
• Brilliant colours are harder to wear on the face and require some circumspection in their application.
• "I dare say," said Constance, "that I'd wear a smile on my face if all I had to do was lie around all day and every now and then chase a bit of fluff round a dog track.

stage_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage: "wet white" was used for the Girls' legs.
• They give us and Perry Farrell (who's God in these parts) "HIPS LIPS TITS POWER" T-shirts which we duly wear on stage.
• I have to wear make-up on stage but I prefer to let my skin breathe and just wear the minimum
• Top price at the pop memorabilia sale was GBP4,100 for a crucifix pendant Madonna wore on stage.
• I have to wear make-up on stage or on photo shoots.
• The frontman was an intriguing-sounding character called Tony Dardis who wore a white suit on stage and whom Gedge refers to as "Mr Entertainment".

slope_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• But lots of people travel in the snow-washed variety -- especially cocky skiers who say they wear denim on the slopes because they never fall over.
• I would really like to wear some fashionable clothes on the slopes but haven't got a clue where to start looking.
• two, two shirts for wearing on the slopes, one pair, one pair for wearing in the evening, I've got one shirt to go in and the one I'm wearing as I, as I go out

string_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• Frescoes show that the seals were worn on string or leather thongs looped round the owner's neck or wrist.
• The oldest of the fishermen, grey of head and wearing his false teeth on a string round his neck, spat in the sand and said, "Trent, boy, you take them men, you make damn sure them pay cash money."
• These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger, although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck, or simply reserved for a leisured elite.

arm_n----------PP_on----------(back to top)

• The rings were used in a variety of ways: some were worn on the arm or wrist; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items; a third use was as a girdle hanger.
• Black or grey trousers were worn on duties other than full dress parades, and a brassard showing a Union Jack with a swastika superimposed was worn on the left arm in conjunction with the uniform.
• Already, she wore on her arms all the jewellery she could ever have dreamed of.
• Stella had changed into slacks and overall to keep her costume clean for the curtain call, but still wore a heavy gilt bracelet on her arm.
• You wear it on your arm, and it releases a measured dosage of nicotine extract throughout the day which really does take away the desire to smoke.

commuting_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• In addition, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists could include an ETA logo and would be particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.
• In addition, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists could include an EIG logo and would be particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.
• If NFC are keen on publicity, T-shirts and sweat shirts worn by commuting and recreational cyclists are particularly effective because they are designed in bright colours for conspicuity and would be highly visible to the travelling public.

likes_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• You are wearing a cloak such as was worn every day by the likes of your mama, your grandmama and yourself.
• Worn by the likes of Seal, Naomi Campbell and Lenny Kravitz, it uses precious stones, silver and gold in a tasteful way.
• His clothes, originally worn by Lauren Bacall, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, were given a great boost recently when worn by the likes of Madonna and Deee-Lite.

man_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• Aftershave is worn by men and loved by women.
• "Identical rings, one worn by a man in a painting done two hundred years ago, another worn by a man photographed less than six months ago.
• Traditionally a signet ring, with a family crest engraved on it for marking wax seals, was the only jewellery worn by a man.
• These tabarri , worn by most men in the region, kept the body and the hands very warm.
• A cheeky innocence was imparted to the ruined photo by Nicola's prominent front teeth: her vanity and the ambition to succeed in television must have made her pay later for cosmetic dental work, concluded Dexter, who had an acute eye for wigs worn by men and corsets by women.
• "No, it's a lady's eternity ring, red gold, Victorian, although I suppose it could be worn by a man, on his little finger.
• After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste, and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles, some of them made in Britain, were worn by the men and women of prosperous families.
• Because, as her heart started to thunder beneath her ribs, she realised that the last time she had seen those brown leather shoes, they were being worn by a man -- in Prague!
• Helmets of the kind worn by the men who marched to the Holy Land with Richard.
• It was identical to the one worn by the man in the photo she had back at the hotel.

woman_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• You know, the sort that make thick calves look even thicker and are only worn by women with thick calves.
• In Ethiopia, as in India, the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy, but is in fact a key part of it, producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women.
• She was making serwal -- pantaloons, the jodhpur-like underpants worn by the women and children which tie at the waist, fasten at the ankle and are loose, cool and comfortable.
• I actually have at the back which I will show in a minute, a costume that was worn by a woman in the eighteen-forties, and it shows how she has kept up with the fashion; it is a fairly fashionable dress, but it is adapted for real life, for day to day life, for for the life of an ordinary middle class woman who had perhaps one or two servants, but had to do the running of the household herself.
• His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloe in being soft, rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons.
• Ethnology shows that girdles of cowrie shells were worn by Tibetan women as charms against barrenness.
• This prediction comes from Guerlain, whose perfumes have been worn by beautiful women such as Catherine Deneuve, Joan Collins and Ursula Andress.
• Another important gold item is a body chain of a type worn by wealthy women: the double chain passed around the neck then under the breasts and round the back, secured by decorative medallions at the centre front and back.
• The room reeked of the cheap perfume worn by the blowzy woman who was vacating it as we arrived.

sex_n----------PP_by----------(back to top)

• A dress can be worn with clumpy men's shoes; tracksuit bottoms and loose tops are comfortable, roomy and worn by either sex; second-hand clothes can be put together with new ones; and very few people believe the laws that fashion writers once laid down, such as "no horizontal stripes or light colours for bigger women".
• From the various sizes of key rings found, and the fact that some are quite delicate others heavy duty, it is likely that they were worn by both sexes.
• They ranged from poor orphans in modest white dresses ( worn by both sexes) to sailor-suited scions of white-collar families and rich little Lord Fauntleroys.

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• The Civil War travelling exhibition of arms and armour opens at the Town Docks Museum on 11 April where visitors can see the armour worn by the future Charles II at "the refusal".
• The Iron Crown of Lombardy worn by Charles after his conquest of Desiderius.
• One of her designs is for a lady's version of the Norfolk jacket, which has been worn by Prince Charles on Sandringham shoots.

occasion_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• Over breakfast (no Guardian was delivered, doubtless because of the snow) she pondered the question of what clothes to wear for the occasion.
• It was enough that the girl had made the shoes which she was wearing for this special occasion, she certainly had no place in this night of Emily's triumph.
• He also wore a jewelled crown for such occasions, and a jewelled hilted sword.
• Tajik women (left) wear jewellery for important occasions.
• Esau must prepare a special meal for his father, he must wear his best robes for the occasion.
• Mildred changed from her ordinary school uniform to the best robes which the girls always wore for special occasions.
• Although I do admit to owning a bathrobe with my initials on it -- and wearing green glasses for occasions when I want to draw attention to myself.
• J.B. Yes, and I do wear it for occasions like that.
• "But now Miss Kyte must leave you, or she will have nothing to wear for the occasion."
• With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion.

rest_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• A wound resulted in his having to wear a steel corset for the rest of his life (an extra discomfort in the tropics) and also in total deafness in one ear.
• If I'd become known as the Man In The Pyjamas, I'd have to wear those pyjamas for the rest of my life!
• The poor thing cant walk properly anymore and may have to wear nappies for the rest of its life."
• What a tragedy if that son had to wear a brace for the rest of his life.
• He decided to wear it for the rest of his life.
• After all, your wedding ring is something you will wear for the rest of your life.
• "We'll make a proper job of this!" she declared, and putting her fist into the crown, she forced it up as high as she could push it, and wore the resulting sombrero for the rest of the term.

work_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• I do prefer to wear smart clothes for work; it's still not easy for women in business to be taken seriously -- I like to look the part.
• She wears little make-up for work and says: "It goes back to the time when I started in the job.
• She had thin, brittle, permed hair, and, under the blue and white checked overall she always wore for work, her legs were stringy and knotted with varicose veins.
• What do you wear for work?
• Meanwhile, staff at the Credit Card Centre paid GBP2 each to wear casual clothing for work.
• "I don't wear a great deal for work," she explained, "and I have no intention of going on air looking like a tart, so forget it."
• Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest.
• Sarah was given a new apron to wear for work and an embroidered handkerchief for herself, a very pretty one with lace round the edge which was much too good to use.
• What do you wear for work?
• Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work.

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• She will undoubtedly wear a summer frock for the wedding."
• It's designed by Tomasz Starzewski, who made the dress that Viscount Althorp's wife, Victoria, wore for their wedding.
• "I agree, and I intend it shall be, but what has Dana got to do with the gown you'll wear for our wedding?"
• I really need some advice about what to wear for the wedding."

age_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• I didn't wear a short skirt for ages after that.
• I'm dying to try out my hairdressing skills and I've got these two absolutely sumptuous dresses which haven't been worn for ages.
• Cos I'm not actually losing weight, but my clothes all feel, you know I can get into clothes I haven't worn for ages.
• It is no coincidence either that members of the Boo-Yaa Tribe appear in UK adverts for Carhartt: they've been wearing the gear for ages.
• We want to wear some of those clothes in the wardrobe that we haven't been able to wear for ages.
• I'm not worn no make-up for ages, 'cos me eyes seem to be like, itching all of a sudden.

visit_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• Fortunately, Miss Zeta Jones wore ordinary clothes for her visit to a victim of Motor Neurone disease.
• The glamorous nightdress I'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and, instead, I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown.
• STUART RILEY, a marketing specialist at the University of Lancaster, recognised his role in industrial change when he was asked to wear a suit for factory visits.
• STUART RILEY, a marketing specialist at the University of Lancaster, recognised his role in industrial change when he was asked to wear a suit for factory visits.

purpose_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• * If you work in open food areas you are only permitted to wear wedding rings without stones, sleeper earrings and identity bracelets/necklaces worn for medical purposes."
• Staff in high risk areas are limited to small sleeper earrings, an identity bracelet or necklace worn for medical purposes only, and a wedding ring.
• Even his clothes seemed worn for a purpose, blending with the greens and browns of their surroundings.
• It would be a wicked waste if it isn't worn for its proper purpose."

while_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• Susan suspected her quarry had decided to stop wearing his own face for a while, so he could deal with his guests.
• I would like you to wear it for a while."
• Ain't worn condoms for a while.

day_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• They'd be secondhand shoes because they've been worn for three days.
• I wore a set for nine days, without having the opportunity for a proper wash, and they were still comfortable and did not smell.
• I could see his jeans, shirts, jerseys, everything he needed to wear for the next two days, neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh.
• "I'll give you some cortisone cream and I want you to wear cotton gloves for a few days, then come back and see me.
• Failure to do so was punished by being forced to wear the hated beret for a whole day in school -- for lessons, lunch, everything , a badge of shame Sally had so far managed to avoid.
• "You'll be wearing it for Mayor-making day, no doubt?"
• A big man, six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone, he always looked mildly untidy, and this morning, having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells.
• Adam had viewed with near-incredulity his mother's preparations in the past for going on holiday, the way everything in the house seemed to get washed, the way she and his father wore their worst clothes for days beforehand because the best ones were packed, the phone calls she made, the notes she left for tradesmen.

month_n----------PP_for----------(back to top)

• More than 1,600 smokers were asked to wear an arm patch for 3 months.
• CLAIRE, as pale as the winter daybreak she will never see again, sits on her bed wheezing through the oxygen mask she has worn for the past three months.
• "Now, if this young scoundrel has the moral fibre to wear this apparatus for one month, I can guarantee he'll be dancing the polka with the best of them."
• Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits, or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end, or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house, or bothered young women on the subway.
• I didn't wear the lenses for six months.

always_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• you've got to have the tourist there, it's a I find, tourists, they always wear the wrong sort of clothes.
• The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive.
• Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence.
• Giving his height as six-foot, he said that he always wore glasses except when playing football.
• Our English Springer, Tessie, was a member of the club and always wore her medallion with "I help my pals" on one side and our address on the reverse.
• Bertha always wore them on her dress, and they clinked as she walked along.
• If they went for the traditional look I suppose they'd all be wearing hard hats that looked like the flat cap Victorian cyclists always wore .
• She always wore white....
• When he first knew her, when she was plump and big-boned, and had that corn-coloured hair and always wore pale grey, she would sit at Margaret's parties and never say a word.
• I can't always wear the same outfit!

still_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• People still wear flares and think they're being groovy.
• This garment grew with the child, so she was still wearing it to play in the garden when she was four years old!
• Devlin, still wearing a suit more apt for Portugal, had managed to procure a raincoat in Paris, but he was freezing and quite miserable as he trudged through the crowds in the railway station at Berlin.
• He was still wearing the Russian tunic, but they kept the sheet over his legs so I couldn't see if they'd taken off the bear-like trousers.
• She was still wearing muddy breeches, black socks and Merlin s polo shirt.
• I fell asleep, crouched beside the door, still wearing my clothes.
• Some still wore traditional clothing: sheepskin chubas slung rakishly over one shoulder, heavy turquoise and silver hoop earrings, embroidered knee-length boots.
• When the door opened and Sister Cecilia came in, still wearing her kitchen apron, the whirling thoughts ceased and she said, "Oh, Sister."
• Fiona still wore her peach-coloured bridesmaid's dress, very long and smooth-looking.
• He was still wearing the same clothes he'd worn that afternoon, and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening, and who with.

proudly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• SIR -- As the Labour Party cannot be trusted to display the red rose without it withering, may we have it back again in time for St George's Day, April 23, so that it may be proudly worn again by loyal Englishmen.
• When Eva was five the girls had their photograph taken with Eva proudly wearing "a very nice dress with some smocking across it", which Joyce had made by hand.
• Mary Alice proudly wearing the all-important 30 mission tallies.
• In addition, the conglomerate label that Pearson proudly wears does not at present find particular favour with institutional investors.
• For example, the manager may find it hard to understand how Harry (say), who proudly wears the company's 35 years' service badge, can walk out with his work group in an industrial dispute.
• Kibah Tick Tock... stabled in the village and proudly wearing the Australian colours.
• Proudly wearing the bishop's mitre and gorgeous robes his mother had made for him, he conducted Sunday evening services in the family sitting-room, rearranged as a church for the occasion.
• We had half-listened to the censored news bulletins and seen young men home on leave, proudly wearing their uniform.
• Today's scouts proudly wear cooking and computer badges as well as the more traditional activities of camping and sports.
• That means the famous three feathers, which have been proudly worn by greats of the past, will disappear from the Red Jersey.

never_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Oh mummy I never wear them otherwise.
• STEVIE Ray Vaughan guitar hero T-shirt, brand new, never worn , a rarity, GBP12.
• I never wear it.
• A senior citizen is one who was here before the pill, before television, frozen food, credit card and ballpoint pens, for us timesharing meant togetherness, not computers and a chip meant a piece of wood, hardware meant hardware and software wasn't even a word, teenagers never wore slacks, we were before pantyhose, drip-dry clothes, dishwashers, clothes driers and electric blankets, we got married first and then lived together
• "I've never worn a waistcoat before," he said with pleasure.
• He never wore his turban at home, which always gave Hoomey a jolt of surprise, seeing the knee-length black hair coiled on top of his head, skewered in place with a comb.
• Never wear a brim wider than your shoulders or a crown narrower than your check bones.
• But when she had washed her hair and dressed in a new pair of designer jeans and a silk shirt that had been a Christmas present and which she'd never worn before -- it wasn't to Eva's house that she went but back down into the town, towards the theatre and the Franz Joseph.
• Nannies were inevitable and, within their social set, also very much the norm; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime: she had no formal training, never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name.
• it's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun, I thought what have I let myself in for because I'd never worn dog tags before and I'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise, I'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days

all_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• After all, there are a lot of divisions in the police -- they don't all wear uniforms and some don't even shave.
• Advertising was a large tatty lino-floored room crammed with people who all wore faded jeans de rigueur , with a smell of spray mount, and magic markers littered everywhere.
• Then I imagined Lewis, boots tied round his neck, for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan, skinning her jeans off, not me, and he turned into Rodney Ritchie, at home with his parents, unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife, and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall... except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss, which is when I think I started to get confused.
• They all wore the most expensive clothes and had beautiful, long, curly hair.
• The cops all wear rubber gloves and all carry guns.
• It did not disconcert Sly that he found himself addressing an audience who were all wearing false dingo ears.
• Men-at-arms, wearing the royal livery of Scotland, attempted to impose some form of order but the situation was not improved by a horde of courtiers standing around also issuing their instructions to a vast army of retainers all wearing different liveries.
• We reach the station at the same moment as an elegant train loaded with ladies preening themselves in their furs and hats, the men all wearing dark suits.
• "They all wore bleached Levis, Dr Martens, a short scarf tied cravat style, cropped hair.
• They all wore black, like judges, and they were grimfaced as if judgement sat heavily on them.

usually_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• For herself, she had by now evolved a working wardrobe of a plain skirt, in navy or beige with matching cardigan (usually well worn and full of holes in the elbows) and a toning plain shirt.
• At any rate, when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus, I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed, willing my eyes to stay shut, but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end, and I had to open my eyes and listen.
• This was usually worn when selling The Fascist and for other ceremonial duties.
• Usually worn by those smug bastards who fidget relentlessly on planes and insist on getting up and walking round the whole time, demonstratively taking photos out of windows and asking for guided tours of the cockpit.
• But they usually wear a vest with it and .
• Once inside a gallery, Gina would sidle up to the bowls and shovel large handfuls of nuts or crisps into the pockets of the loose Chinese quilted jacket that she usually wore .
• What do you usually wear when doing the vacuum cleaning? (please tick all that apply)
• The Gynae man who usually wore the outfit was thinner than Daniel, so that Daniel's black garments appeared in large and small expanses under and through the red, like coals in a fire.
• Not usually worn by either party.
• Minerva, like Athene, was usually depicted wearing a helmet and armour and carrying a lance and shield.

underneath_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• It can be full-length too, or shortened to a jacket and there's a beautifully shaped polo-neck sweater to wear underneath (Pattern 2).
• This creates a breathing space between inner clothes and the waterproof outer skin; important when only thermals are being worn underneath.
• I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla, even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath -- "Rats Have Rights" -- was a bit of a giveaway, or maybe I was just paranoid.
• What are you wearing underneath?"
• What Amanda was wearing underneath had once been a matter of passionate interest to Don.
• "I'm going to change," and went into the bedroom; so he didn't find out what she was wearing underneath.
• SLEEK CHIC Principles georgette shirt with beaded embroidery, GBP39.99; Knickerbox camisole ( worn underneath), GBP16.99; Bernshaw sequined crochet long skirt, about GBP150; Miss Selfridge, kitten-heeled slingbacks with elastic front, GBP29.99; Charnos Matt Satin Opaque tights, GBP5.10
• I wouldn't know what she was wearing underneath.
• When I finally took off the overtrousers, the fleece trousers I was wearing underneath were completely dry, which is what I would have expected from their three-layer Gore-Tex construction.

only_AV0----------adverb----------(back to top)

• I was thinking of wearing my pomona green, because I've only worn it once, but Hill says that green is bad luck at weddings.
• "It's all right, I'm only wearing old clothes," said Melissa reassuringly as the dog hurled itself at her legs.
• She gave him a rather languid finger wave and just as she disappeared under the wing float, he then realised she was only wearing a black sporran.
• "It seems that a lot of women only wear one colour of lipstick or have two alternatives.
• When the fell race became a regular part of Burnsall Feast Sports, the runners not only wore clothes but also their hobnailed working boots.
• Despite excellent character-witnesses, among them Elizabeth, who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid's behalf, Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence: a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings -- a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder.
• Sweat poured from their bodies and they wore only the thinnest of breeches.
• She assured us they had only been worn a few times.
• The father was big, fat, and jolly; he liked to go around wearing only a vest and trousers, and didn't shave on Sunday when the restaurant was closed, and sometimes not even when it was open.
• Moi," he knew from his reading, was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for "savage," and looking at the dark-skinned, low-browed men, he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work.

both_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Witnesses in Berridale Avenue in Baillieston, where the attack happened said the two men, both wearing balaclavas, hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van's windows.
• Both wore large chunky gold jewellery.
• Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold.
• Both wear shrouds of the Boughton Aluph type, though she is sans cap and he sans ruff; in both cases the winding-sheet with its discreet top-knot, acts as the cap.
• The second conclusion was that involvement in innovation was both wearing and stretching.
• Your father and his helper are both wearing white aprons
• 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.
• Both attackers are described as aged between 18 and 20 and both wearing black Naf-Naf style jackets.
• They both sometimes wore white stockings, which compounded the uniquely maddening quality of their hems, adding to the aspect, both prim and clinical, which so infuriated Lydia.
• Mabs wore a red bathing dress, Tashie a blue; both wore white rubber caps.

ever_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• He said, to Caterina, "No one as pretty as you will ever wear glasses."
• No one has ever worn an England sweater longer.
• His uniform was immaculate, but paraded no medals, and the creases on his trousers were so sharp that Charlie wondered if they had ever been worn before.
• I wonder whether he ever wore that?
• It was one of her own designs, but whether she would ever have worn it, if it hadn't been for the interfering Roman Wyatt, she didn't know.
• Had he ever worn those natty pinstripes?
• The first man chooses a pub along Marsh Wall on the Millwall Dock, which in my day was the kind of place no one ever wore a suit.
• Although we changed its name to corduroy to give it a touch of class, there is no evidence that the French every called it corde du roi or that kings ever wore it.
• "You don't honestly think I'd ever wear anything like that!"
• Ever worn them?

normally_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud, explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume, she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents: "une vraie Caireenne, n'est ce pas?"
• These seem to have been designed to be worn on the finger, although the oval design-disc was so big as to he unwieldy; possibly they were normally worn on a string round the neck, or simply reserved for a leisured elite.
• The rather superior expression which Chatterton normally wore had softened.
• He normally didn't like wearing uniforms in films, but wore them with aplomb.
• No one like himself, a partial cripple, with a badly scarred body -- his limp was paining him this week -- and with a ruined face into the bargain could hope to aspire to such a Bird of Paradise; he could only imagine what she looked like in the clothes she normally wore .
• Angela is planning a traditional wedding but the dresses she had seen were too romantic and frilly, and she was unsure about what to do with her make-up as she normally wears quite strong colours but felt she wanted to tone them down for her wedding day.
• Do you normally wear your glasses all the time?
• He normally didn't like wearing uniforms in films, but wore them with aplomb.
• The British Army soldiers had been, for a considerable period of time, mainly clad in a red tunic for battle, reputably so that any sign of blood was not easily discerned, but Baden-Powell realised that, with the advance of fire arms, the red tunic provided a more prominent target than the rather drab mixture of green and brown as normally worn by the Boers.
• He normally never wears anything on his head --" He broke off as Buckmaster reappeared in the doorway.

badly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• After twenty years, the Lytham Road track was badly worn , and by the late Fifties the cars performed ever more alarming rolls.
• Just as dentists are taught to plug cavities on sight, so they are trained to remove badly worn , leaky or broken fillings.
• The Zeltweg race was, after all, on Niki's home territory, and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil, the race took on a new perspective for Niki: he found himself in the lead, with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres.
• The food was unspeakable, most children wore threadbare clothes and badly worn shoes in need of repair.
• In such works as Bewick's, it is possible to see the deterioration that has occurred from the use of badly worn blocks.
• The little bitch cowered against the wall, her red coat looking like a badly worn carpet, her ears bedraggled and almost bare, and a scar across her nose.
• Half of them were badly worn , everybody was open to erm, serious leg injuries
• Again the stone walls are dark and streaked with rain and age, and along them are ranged carved figures, many badly worn and now almost unrecognizable.
• But some of them have worn badly.
• She felt tired and cold from all her walking, her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her.

away_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Each eye that looks to wear away the glass a little bit.
• When the time came for returning the spoon, he found that part of the soft horn bowl had worn away.
• This point means that the stop line has been obliterated by mud, snow or rain etc. or has worn away.
• In fact, rhynchosaur teeth have only a thin layer of enamel, which apparently was readily worn away.
• The top of the anticline has been worn away, down to the Millstone Grit in some places and down to the Carboniferous Limestone in others.
• The old armour is either worn away gradually, as in crocodiles, or it is shed at special times in a complete "coat", as in lizards and snakes.
• Since they are not in contact with the ground they are not worn away in the usual fashion.
• The adamantium floor down there was inscribed with a maze of tiny coloured channels that bootsteps would never be able to wear away in a pattern suggestive of a cosmic map -- and along all of those channels were spaced little indentations the depth of a Fist's thumbprint, each recess named with a rune.
• However, with time, the galvanised coating will be worn away (especially if there is a copper pipework in the system) and the cistern will start to rust.
• And so it is not easily worn away or eroded.

hardly_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• We hardly ever wear these blouses Granny Knight bought us."
• One could hardly wear garments that were ripped to shreds and spattered with blood.
• He can hardly have been wearing a ski mask in the street at that hour of the morning, whether it was snowing or not."
• "I hardly ever wear dresses as they never fit -- you always see me in shorts.
• I'm sure she'd been sitting there, but she was hardly wearing anything !
• "One can hardly appear wearing L-plates, but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying: "This is the definitive version."
• For to to protect you in the tunnel they said you wear a helmet, but nobody hardly ever wore it.
• I hardly wear any because I'm too lazy with maintenance.
• I hardly wore any dresses.
• Tyler Blacklock had little interest in the millinery world, for he hardly ever wore a hat and so did not move in such circles; neither had he made enquiries with regard to Beth or her husband.

no_longer_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• At about this time tights were no longer worn on stage: "wet white" was used for the Girls' legs.
• Since the heating wasn't yet working, the two young women stamped around in winter coats and boots, and dodged whistling workmen, who no longer wore baggy dungarees but tight jeans as they carried planks from one room to another.
• He no longer wore glasses, but he hadn't changed his hair style or seersucker jacket.
• Ladies no longer wear "coats and skirts", instead they go for "suits", "separates" or "mix and match".
• The huge drafty dorms of ten years ago have been replace with study bedrooms, and the Four Marys no longer wear school uniform all the time and appear to have lost their hats as well!
• the hat he wore no longer had a story.
• That diary, for instance, seven months out of date, the lipstick she no longer wore , several letters waiting to be answered and a charity appeal leaflet... and, ah, yes, there it was.
• They were no longer wearing string vests, they were wearing Lacoste polo shirts with an alligator emblem on the pocket or "Cisco Kid" shirts with diagonal zippers.
• They were no longer wearing string vests, they were wearing Lacoste polo shirts with an alligator emblem on the pocket or "Cisco Kid" shirts with diagonal zippers.
• (I could no longer wear thongs.)

long_AV0 +----------adverb----------(back to top)

• In the arctic conditions of the forest margin and tundra, pullover parkas of deerskin, along with deerskin boots and fur caps, were worn by Nenets men, while women wore long wrap-over fur coats.
• Amanda was slender to the point of emaciation, wore long, flowing skirts and walked in an awkward, long-striding way, her slightly curved back giving her a bird-like look.
• Carrie is very thin but she often wears long droopy smocky things so I didn't really notice her tummy.
• They had light skins which were tanned to various shades of golden brown, and most wore long down-turned moustaches or straggling beards.
• The sight of the noble stone arcades with hanging lanterns, cafe tables, people sitting smoking and drinking, waiters wearing long white aprons balancing trays of bottles and glasses and highly coloured liqueurs, the busy shops, a glimpse of a sombre church -- it was ail enchantment.
• She very often went barefoot in order to keep her feet in good condition, and she wore long, dangly earrings.
• He is wearing long white shorts with a black band, he is perfectly poised, arms outstretched, slightly crouched, his arrow-like board barely carving the water with one rail, spraying out a tail of whitewater behind him like a comet moving through space.
• Many of them wear long ragged cloaks, hooded coats, and dangling caps which cover their bodies and protect them from the sunlight.
• You had to wear long, elasticated shorts and a long skirt over them.
• Helen reached in and stirred with distaste; a brown knitted pixie hat surfaced that her mother used to wear long ago, unravelled now to a skeletal condition.

now_AV0----------adverb----------(back to top)

• "The people wearing Hard Yakka now might not be wearing it in 1994, but the product has a wider appeal than a fickle, professionally-trendy minority."
• It was a relief when Rosie rejoined them, now wearing a smart dress in cherry-red shantung, and a black hat with a saucy feather.
• He also recorded his suspicions that those paupers who had gone to prison were now wearing clothes belonging to the workhouse, and enquired whether their own clothes should be sent to them.
• I'm not sure what I think now about wearing clothes like that.
• About seventy per cent of the entrants now wear fancy dress and this has stopped it, unlike the World Coal Carrying Championship, from becoming a serious sporting event.
• Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the suit evolved into styles which survive, if at all, only as formal dress -- the evening tailcoat now worn with white tie, the morning coat often used at formal weddings, and the rarely seen frock coat.
• At daybreak Miss Logan, now wearing the pistol at her belt, set off down the mountain with the guide.
• When he returned to the table bearing the drinks he was somewhat surprised to find that the expression Jim Pooley now wore upon his face mirrored exactly that of Neville the part-time barman.
• Today he was tousled, and even more in need of a shave; under his suit jacket, he now wore an old pullover.
• If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now, and his shoes had mud on them, and Erlich didn't think Ruane would be impressed.

often_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• He often wore expensive black clothes, and he laughed a lot when he was with me.
• The shell surface, or periostracum , is a thin layer of horn-like conchyolin, and is often partially worn away, especially in an older snail.
• He often wore open&rehy;necked shirts, and he had a very hairy chest.
• The plough-witches often wore women's clothing, which was derived from the mummers' plays where an old woman called Bessy, accompanied by the fool, was the central character who carried the money box.
• In 1968 suits were with flares and turn ups & often worn with a v-neck pullover & no shirt, light weight Italian slip-ons.
• As a great admirer of "Laura Ashley" dresses, she often wore the long, British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions -- once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa -- an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache.
• I often wear a towelling dressing gown when I'm invited out to dinner," said Alex.
• But today, wearing the right tie often means wearing the right label.
• Amongst the deities who had great general appeal were Hapy, god of the Nile, a fertile figure with a papyrus plant on his head; Taurt, a hippopotamus goddess, connected with the domestic life as the protector of women in childbirth; and Bes, an ugly dwarf often wearing a lion's mane and tail carrying knives, who was guardian and genius against any evil and helped to ward off danger at the birth of a child.
• I suppose we must look strange to them, and what must also be strange is the way we are living among them -- no longer apart, but eating their food and often wearing Indian clothes because they are cooler and cheaper.

rarely_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion.
• But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion.
• Alex is a natural beauty and she rarely wears make-up so Fiona applied soft colours for a natural look.
• She rarely wears them: she wears her little locket, superstitiously.
• Helen admitted that she rarely wears much make-up in the evening, apart from a little gold eyeshadow, blusher and lipstick.
• He is always well-dressed, usually in smart suits and casual shirts, though in deference to the Jewish tradition which he discreetly adorns, he rarely wears a tie.
• In Britain surgeons and theatre staff rarely wear eye protection unless they wear glasses for their eyesight or are treating high risk patients.
• "A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man", wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson, Max Ernst, Dali or most chillingly of all, Hans Bellmer, the female form appears distorted, dissected, feathered, bound and strapped to machines, she rarely even wears a face.

sometimes_AV0 -----------adverb----------(back to top)

• Although upper class men varied their clothing rather more, according to what they happened to be doing, for formal public appearances they sometimes wore the toga.
• He sometimes wears round" John Lennon type" glasses.
• She sometimes wore white shoes.
• They came in right at the end of the period I spent working there I never owned one myself -- although I'd sometimes wear one in the shop I thought they were stupid.
• It flashed on me that it was also the smile that Conchis sometimes wore ; as if he sat before the head and practised it.
• Dwarfs sometimes wear uniforms appropriate to their province or city state in the same way as men.
• It was there that they went each summer, in Shiva's holidays, their fares paid by Sabine Schnitzler who, having reverted to her maiden name and largely to her native tongue, sometimes wore a surprised, even bewildered, look at being surrounded, as she put it, by "all those Indians".
• "We enter the water, sometimes wearing wet suits, we've used canoes, and we've used poles tied together to splash water near hooks," he said.
• Dark shirts in the latter half of the year 1970 sometimes worn with the stickpinned hank.
• Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often "not terribly funny, at just those moments when it tries the hardest, and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint", but concluded that it "is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors".

time_n----------PP_at----------(back to top)

• It was wearing a radio collar at the time.
• Middle-class Edinburgh lads like myself are discouraged from an early age from being physical unless they're wearing rugby shorts at the time.
• They wear muzzles at all times when they are together at home, and we put them in separate rooms whenever they are left on their own.
• The girls insist that it is their fundamental right to wear their scarves at all times, just as some of their fellow students wear skullcaps or the cross.
• The Welding Regulations 1970 impose a statutory duty on employers and employees that: "safety goggles must as far as is practicable be worn at all times when welding operations are being carried out".
• "I've worn costume at Carnival time," he said smoothly, ducking the question.
• Did I wear it over Chris , I didn't wear it at Christmas time did I?
• Nonetheless, the majority (70%) of rear seat car passenger casualties in this age group were not wearing seat belts at the time of the accident.
• Sally felt a little flush of excitement creeping up her cheeks and she was acutely conscious of her gingham uniform dress and the beret which school rules said must be worn at all times when outside the school grounds.
• I thought you used to wear them at one time