Example sentences of "from head to toe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay stood frozen from head to toe and watched the car accelerate down the road . |
| 2 | We were there last weekend , they 'd say , and the elements were against us , but we were snug from head to toe in our rubber suits . |
| 3 | They certainly must have thought Malcolm was fishy , dressed as he was in black leather from head to toe . |
| 4 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 5 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 6 | A friend of mine who took part in such a march in Greenwich , Connecticut , headquarters of the Pittston Group , said that first came the airline pilots in their dark blue uniforms and gold braided hats ; then the telephone workers all dressed in red shirts ; and then the miners covered from head to toe in camouflage . |
| 7 | I was clothed in black from head to toe six weeks after my eighteenth birthday . |
| 8 | He blinked again and shivered from head to toe . |
| 9 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 10 | First he scrubbed the boy from head to toe , using a piece of towelling and a bar of carbolic soap . |
| 11 | Her gaze swept over her mother-in-law from head to toe and back again , and her expression was one of open contempt . |
| 12 | At a beautiful moon bridge , he passed a naked living woman who seemed to have been burned from head to toe and was red all over . |
| 13 | With my first dram halfway to my lips , the door burst open and in Sykes marched , snow-white from head to toe . |
| 14 | Natural movement which is also a pleasure rather than a chore is infinitely superior to indoor exercises with weights , or exercise that is so taxing that one aches from head to toe afterwards . |
| 15 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 16 | ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe . |
| 17 | ‘ The King 's legs were broken , there were injuries from head to toe . |
| 18 | Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation . |
| 19 | He walked me to the door with the kids in tow and said that we could all have a look inside , the kids as well , but even though I was shaking from head to toe , I said eventually , after we walked past the place at least four times , if I was going to do this I might as well do it on my own . |
| 20 | From head to toe they are : |
| 21 | Measuring over 200 feet from head to toe it stands proudly on the south of Windover Hill , a few miles inland from Eastbourne . |
| 22 | All Friday night the streets would be packed with people dressed from head to toe in blue . |
| 23 | I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice . |
| 24 | Now I think I know why Moslems wrap their women in black from head to toe . |
| 25 | A torrent of foul , icy water drenched Miss Hardbroom from head to toe , followed a second later by the bucket which crashed over her head with a doom-laden clang . |
| 26 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 27 | In this strongly Islamic culture , women may only appear in public draped from head to toe in heavy black robes , with no part of their face showing , except their eyes . |
| 28 | A couple of years ago this crowd would have been in Ralph Lauren from head to toe , but today there 's a mixture of Guess , Nautica , Tommy Hilfiger ( ‘ Tommy got the colours ’ ) , Fila and even Duck Head , an obscure Southern prep-wear firm . |
| 29 | Dressed from head to toe in space armour and waving the legs of horses still bloody from where they have been gnawed off , The Rosaries cross the room and eat Lemmy — alive ! |
| 30 | By now I was virtually paralysed from head to toe . |