Example sentences of "[vb pp] from head to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bows the boatman 's wife sat muffled from head to foot , invisible behind her veil , anonymous . |
| 2 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 3 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 4 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 5 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |
| 12 | A young groom , spattered from head to toe with mud , half-falling out of the saddle of an exhausted , blown horse , reached Leighton Manor . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Both wore silver chaplets and were clothed from head to toe in robes of gold . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Not even when we were lying so close that every inch of our skin touched from head to toe ? ’ he challenged her softly . |
| 20 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 21 | All Friday night the streets would be packed with people dressed from head to toe in blue . |
| 22 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 23 | Dressed from head to toe in space armour and waving the legs of horses still bloody from where they have been gnawed off , The Rosaries cross the room and eat Lemmy — alive ! |
| 24 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 25 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 26 | ‘ Dressed from head to foot by Peggy Pine … . ’ |
| 27 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 28 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 29 | Like the captured enemy patrol , Grant and Larsen were dressed from head to foot in dark clothing , only in their case it was less military in style . |
| 30 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |