Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 2 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 5 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 8 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 9 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 10 | His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal . |
| 11 | Robyn let out a deep sigh and realised that she was shaking from head to foot . |
| 12 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 13 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |