Example sentences of "from head [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duce had been reduced in a stroke from Head of State to a more or less insignificant cavaliere ( a commonplace title in Italy ) . |
| 2 | Once coloured up , this is truly an attractively marked eel ( although it is not a true eel ) , the dark , glossy tan brown being irregularly mottled from head to tail with black blotches . |
| 3 | The adult animal would have stood 12.5 metres tall and stretched 40 metres from head to tail . |
| 4 | The overall colour of the fish is purple , with a strong black line running along the middle of the body from head to tail , below this line the belly of the fish is from beige to a light salmon pink . |
| 5 | Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktail sticks . |
| 6 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 7 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 8 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 9 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 10 | And when it has been well washed and made clean , ye shall dry it well , and anoint it with this myrrh and balsam , from these golden caskets , from head to foot , so that every part shall be anointed , till none be left . |
| 11 | A fascinating warren of steep narrow alleyways , of Hat-roofed tenement housing , it was visible from the French quarter , visible almost throughout the city : that teeming place , filled with barefoot children , with women shrouded from head to foot in black , who clasped their head-dresses across their faces and between their teeth , and never raised their eyes . |
| 12 | His description of the Christian as ‘ a hallelujah from head to foot ’ , is a thumb-nail sketch of the joy and gratitude of a redeemed memory . |
| 13 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 14 | He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot . |
| 15 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 16 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 17 | ‘ Dressed from head to foot by Peggy Pine … . ’ |
| 18 | So is a very brave Jane Hollis who really should be covered from head to foot to cope ; with even Lossiemouth 's best day ! |
| 19 | He said on the Brian Hayes Show : ‘ It 's an absolutely appalling place … they are covered from head to foot in freckles and have red hair . ’ |
| 20 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 21 | The brave are still brave , the cowards cowardly , and the dirty are still alive from head to foot . |
| 22 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 23 | To Ajax he says : ‘ I would thou didst itch from head to foot ; an ’ I had the scratching of thee , I would make thee the loathsomest scab in Greece' ( 27ff . ) . |
| 24 | The mayor , who had a reputation for trendiness , wore a pale yellow suit under his chain of office ; his lady was in pink flowers and a wide-brimmed white straw hat ; the royal relative was orange from head to foot . |
| 25 | Cold came spreading through her from head to foot , slowly ; she felt it in her lips most , an unnatural iciness . |
| 26 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 27 | I went to bed early : I felt numb from head to foot , did n't have no feelings . |
| 28 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 29 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 30 | The magistrate looked at Mr Brownlow from head to foot . |