Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to foot in " in BNC.

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1 The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits .
2 When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black .
3 He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 He was dressed from head to foot in white .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 She was painted from head to foot in red .
13 They appeared , wrapped like their less exalted sisters from head to foot in black , and ostensibly reluctantly .
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