Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] from head to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe .
2 He was dressed in cloth of gold from head to toe , a simple crown on his head , and I could see he was as bored as I by Dacourt 's vapid pleasantries .
3 They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’
4 I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots .
5 Riding up in the lift , she was prickling with heat from head to foot , intensely aware of his lean , powerful body beside her .
6 She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe .
7 She was n't quite sure who deepened the kiss , or who moved until they were in contact from head to toe and she felt the pulsing of his hard , warm body .
8 This quartet , clothed in black from head to foot in commando style woollen caps , roll-neck sweaters , trousers and combat boots , had their hands cuffed behind their backs , and were being escorted at gun point .
9 I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday .
10 Now I think I know why Moslems wrap their women in black from head to toe .
11 Out of the blazing wreck he leaped , stumbling around on fire from head to toe and screaming .
12 And I were on fire from head to foot !
13 I was on fire from head to foot !
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