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 ! |