Example sentences of "[noun] from head to toe " 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 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 3 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 4 | First he scrubbed the boy from head to toe , using a piece of towelling and a bar of carbolic soap . |
| 5 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound . |
| 8 | She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | When we are finished , they are each matching from head to toe . |
| 13 | Within a few minutes my body was one mass of bruises from head to toe . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was covered in white frost from head to toe and he could n't stop his teeth from chattering . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They certainly must have thought Malcolm was fishy , dressed as he was in black leather from head to toe . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The King 's legs were broken , there were injuries from head to toe . |
| 20 | Her glance raked Polly from head to toe . |
| 21 | A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm . |
| 22 | Out of the blazing wreck he leaped , stumbling around on fire from head to toe and screaming . |
| 23 | Her gaze swept over her mother-in-law from head to toe and back again , and her expression was one of open contempt . |