Example sentences of "[v-ing] from [noun] to foot " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , he stood in front of Lucie 's chair leaping from foot to foot and gesticulating wildly . |
| 2 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 3 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was trembling from head to foot . |
| 6 | She hovered , shifting from foot to foot , wondering if it were fair to wake him up . |
| 7 | He hovered , shifting from foot to foot , wondering what to do with his hands . |
| 8 | Mrs Chalmers is standing beside me , tutting and shifting from foot to foot — she has varicose veins , and does not like standing , which is why she always sits down to sort the bulbs . |
| 9 | Mathilda herself was very ill-at-ease , shifting from foot to foot . |
| 10 | He kept shifting from foot to foot , as if in pain . |
| 11 | Robyn let out a deep sigh and realised that she was shaking from head to foot . |
| 12 | She closed the door behind her and stood there , shaking from head to foot , breathing hoarsely . |
| 13 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 14 | And so when Lacuna was screaming instructions to the androids , and the Doctor was almost hopping from foot to foot with anxiety , and the pale young man and the little girl were staring open-mouthed at the screens , Britta omitted to speak . |
| 15 | Lalage jumped out of the car and waited , hopping from foot to foot like a child longing to pee , while Dada and Aunt Tossie slowly disembarked . |
| 16 | The coroner was fretting , hopping from foot to foot , standing close to the wall of the house , well away from the crowds which now thronged the entire thoroughfare of Cheapside . |