Example sentences of "[verb] from head to [noun sg] " 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 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 3 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 4 | In the bows the boatman 's wife sat muffled from head to foot , invisible behind her veil , anonymous . |
| 5 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 6 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 7 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 8 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Laura was trembling from head to toe . |
| 11 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 12 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 13 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 20 | A young groom , spattered from head to toe with mud , half-falling out of the saddle of an exhausted , blown horse , reached Leighton Manor . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For she had had vivid dreams — dreams in which he was dead and she had gone to see him in the T'ang 's Great Hall , laid out in state , clothed from head to foot in the white cloth of death . |
| 25 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 26 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 27 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 28 | I was er , I was prepared remember , when I had my bone-graft , I went all prepared , shaved from head to foot wrapped up like a mummy , from my neck to my feet . |
| 29 | Claudia gritted her teeth together , groaning as she blushed from head to foot . |
| 30 | ‘ Not even when we were lying so close that every inch of our skin touched from head to toe ? ’ he challenged her softly . |