Example sentences of "[noun sg] from head to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They took him away on a cart , soaked with blood from head to foot . ’
2 First he scrubbed the boy from head to toe , using a piece of towelling and a bar of carbolic soap .
3 Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it .
4 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 .
5 I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound .
6 The overall colour of the fish is purple , with a strong black line running along the middle of the body from head to tail , below this line the belly of the fish is from beige to a light salmon pink .
7 He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot .
8 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 .
9 He was plain and sombre , dark brown from head to foot , to pass in the night unnoted though undisguised .
10 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 . ) .
11 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 .
12 This quartet , clothed in black from head to foot in commando style woollen caps , roll-neck sweaters , trousers and combat boots , had their hands cuffed behind their backs , and were being escorted at gun point .
13 I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday .
14 Now I think I know why Moslems wrap their women in black from head to toe .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The minor amendments altering the roof design of a garage annex from head to gable on the west elevation and all other specs of the development rema remains unchanged , well ,
18 When we are finished , they are each matching from head to toe .
19 He was covered in white frost from head to toe and he could n't stop his teeth from chattering .
20 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 .
21 Tilda came in , wet , and black as coal from head to foot .
22 They certainly must have thought Malcolm was fishy , dressed as he was in black leather from head to toe .
23 Such Cleanliness from Head to Heel :
24 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 .
25 Riding up in the lift , she was prickling with heat from head to foot , intensely aware of his lean , powerful body beside her .
26 Out of the blazing wreck he leaped , stumbling around on fire from head to toe and screaming .
27 And I were on fire from head to foot !
28 I was on fire from head to foot !
29 Her gaze swept over her mother-in-law from head to toe and back again , and her expression was one of open contempt .
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