Example sentences of "[noun] from head to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe . |
| 2 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 3 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 4 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 5 | First he scrubbed the boy from head to toe , using a piece of towelling and a bar of carbolic soap . |
| 6 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 7 | With infinite care and patience , Theda first cleaned the frail and malodorous body from head to toe , enduring in silence a barrage of abuse and complaint the while . |
| 8 | I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was plain and sombre , dark brown from head to foot , to pass in the night unnoted though undisguised . |
| 13 | 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 . ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday . |
| 18 | Now I think I know why Moslems wrap their women in black from head to toe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The minor amendments altering the roof design of a garage annex from head to gable on the west elevation and all other specs of the development rema remains unchanged , well , |
| 22 | When we are finished , they are each matching from head to toe . |
| 23 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 24 | A torrent of foul , icy water drenched Miss Hardbroom from head to toe , followed a second later by the bucket which crashed over her head with a doom-laden clang . |
| 25 | The magistrate looked at Mr Brownlow from head to foot . |
| 26 | They appeared , wrapped like their less exalted sisters from head to foot in black , and ostensibly reluctantly . |
| 27 | He was covered in white frost from head to toe and he could n't stop his teeth from chattering . |
| 28 | There was no need to ask : Bowyer 's body was an open wound from head to toe , his face disfigured by a mass of bruises , and the slackness of his head showed his neck had been broken . |
| 29 | The adult animal would have stood 12.5 metres tall and stretched 40 metres from head to tail . |
| 30 | Tilda came in , wet , and black as coal from head to foot . |