Example sentences of "from head to foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’ |
| 2 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 3 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 4 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 5 | And when it has been well washed and made clean , ye shall dry it well , and anoint it with this myrrh and balsam , from these golden caskets , from head to foot , so that every part shall be anointed , till none be left . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 9 | He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot . |
| 10 | Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need . |
| 11 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 12 | ‘ Dressed from head to foot by Peggy Pine … . ’ |
| 13 | So is a very brave Jane Hollis who really should be covered from head to foot to cope ; with even Lossiemouth 's best day ! |
| 14 | He said on the Brian Hayes Show : ‘ It 's an absolutely appalling place … they are covered from head to foot in freckles and have red hair . ’ |
| 15 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 16 | The brave are still brave , the cowards cowardly , and the dirty are still alive from head to foot . |
| 17 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 18 | 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 . ) . |
| 19 | The mayor , who had a reputation for trendiness , wore a pale yellow suit under his chain of office ; his lady was in pink flowers and a wide-brimmed white straw hat ; the royal relative was orange from head to foot . |
| 20 | Cold came spreading through her from head to foot , slowly ; she felt it in her lips most , an unnatural iciness . |
| 21 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 22 | I went to bed early : I felt numb from head to foot , did n't have no feelings . |
| 23 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 24 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 25 | The magistrate looked at Mr Brownlow from head to foot . |
| 26 | Nobody knows who you are on Remembering Night because you wear black clothes that cover you from head to foot , and there is no name of your name-animal . |
| 27 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I feel so silly with my lord gazing at me from head to foot and Sir Jacob grinning and laughing like an oaf . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She was very quick ; she caught the glance that swept over her from head to foot , and laughed . |