Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun sg] [prep] toe " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice . |
| 2 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 3 | The overwhelming impression left after the debate is of a Tory Party spilt from top to toe over Europe , and a Prime Minister unable to heal the rift . |
| 4 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 5 | Laura was trembling from head to toe . |
| 6 | I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook . |
| 7 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 8 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 9 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 10 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 11 | By the time Kathleen had sorted the patient out and found someone to give his wife a cup of tea and explain what was happening , Jack was back in Theatre , clad from head to toe in green theatre pyjamas , with a J-cloth hat and a mask . |
| 12 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 13 | A young groom , spattered from head to toe with mud , half-falling out of the saddle of an exhausted , blown horse , reached Leighton Manor . |
| 14 | Pamella is ‘ beautiful ’ , ‘ polished and well-gowned ’ , ‘ stunning ’ , ‘ stylish and fashionable ’ , ‘ clothed from head to toe by Yves Saint Laurent ’ , with ‘ absurdly innocent eyes ’ , her face ‘ a placid mask of Eastern innocence ’ . |
| 15 | Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold . |
| 16 | He was a striking figure with a long , dour face , the head completely shaven , his thin body clothed from head to toe in a black gown and cloak . |
| 17 | A black lacy wimple framed her beautiful white face while her splendid body was clothed from neck to toe in a pure black silk gown , the only concession to any alleviating colour being the white lace cuffs and collar and the small jewelled cross which swung from a gold chain round her neck . |
| 18 | Swaddled from neck to toe , like a log of wood . |
| 19 | And with the additional treatments from DeCleor you 'll be glowing from top to toe by the end of the week . |
| 20 | ‘ Not even when we were lying so close that every inch of our skin touched from head to toe ? ’ he challenged her softly . |
| 21 | He blinked again and shivered from head to toe . |
| 22 | I ached from head to toe and the wound in my throat , inflamed by the cold , created a circle of pain around my neck and shoulders . |
| 23 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 24 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 25 | She was shaking from head to toe , her heart thumping wildly . |
| 26 | Beautifully co-ordinated from top to toe , he wore a soft wool coat that matched eyes as dark as a black Welsh tarn . |
| 27 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
| 28 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 29 | All Friday night the streets would be packed with people dressed from head to toe in blue . |
| 30 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |