Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] from head to foot " in BNC.
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1 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
4 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
5 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
6 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
7 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
8 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |