Example sentences of "from head to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once coloured up , this is truly an attractively marked eel ( although it is not a true eel ) , the dark , glossy tan brown being irregularly mottled from head to tail with black blotches . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | He raked her from head to foot with one long , contemptuous look , then turned on his heel , and strode away under the arch and out of sight . |
| 4 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 5 | ‘ Dressed from head to foot by Peggy Pine … . ’ |
| 6 | TWO lorry drivers were stung from head to foot by thousands of angry bees yesterday . |
| 7 | The visitors were covered from head to foot in over-ripe whale bits . |
| 8 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 9 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 19 | They appeared , wrapped like their less exalted sisters from head to foot in black , and ostensibly reluctantly . |
| 20 | I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound . |
| 21 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A young groom , spattered from head to toe with mud , half-falling out of the saddle of an exhausted , blown horse , reached Leighton Manor . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The likes of Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista were clad from head to toe in leather , rubber , latex and PVC . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All Friday night the streets would be packed with people dressed from head to toe in blue . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ! |