Example sentences of "[vb pp] from [noun] to foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the bows the boatman 's wife sat muffled from head to foot , invisible behind her veil , anonymous . |
| 2 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 3 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 4 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 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 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 9 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 10 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 11 | ‘ Dressed from head to foot by Peggy Pine … . ’ |
| 12 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 16 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 17 | So is a very brave Jane Hollis who really should be covered from head to foot to cope ; with even Lossiemouth 's best day ! |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Soon he surfaces from a vat of hot tar , covered from head to foot ; the ‘ tar ’ was really food flavouring . |
| 21 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |