Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] bottom " in BNC.
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1 | Get everybody , preferably , into the front of the house in the bedroom upstairs , get some clothing or some packing , bedding at the base of the door to stop the smoke filtering through the bottom of the door Okay ? |
2 | A few small green leaves are scattered about the bottom of the cupboard … |
3 | Then he was in the hold , chilly waters around his knees as he sank through the bottom of the boat itself . |
4 | We seem to have a number of people in Scotland who have dropped off the bottom of the matrix list . |
5 | Isabel was walking towards the bottom of the garden , where the apple and cherry trees grew , where the compost heap was kept . |
6 | The nucleus lies below the bottom of the picture . |
7 | All things have drawbacks , however , and the sulphurous fumes wafting down from the crater were distinctly smelly , and the occupants of the tunnel awoke in the morning with headaches and mouths that tasted like the bottom of a parrot 's cage . |
8 | While Durham Cricket Club got off to a resounding start , Sunderland brought a respectable gap between themselves and Division Three and Middlesbrough remained in contention for an automatic promotion spot , Newcastle moved into the bottom three of Division Two in remarkable circumstances . |
9 | Plummer peered into the bottom of his glass , as if seeking inspiration there . |
10 | The inside of the channel is coated in some sort of Teflon-like substance which ensures that no matter how hard one scrapes along the bottom or smashes into corners , remarkably little blood gets drawn . |
11 | At Mucking ( Jones 1980 ) blocks of slag were recovered , the largest weighing 24 kilograms , produced when either waste slag or cinder was dropped into the bottom of the shaft , cooling into such blocks . |
12 | An old film canister with a row of holes drilled in the bottom can be floated on the surface of your tank , and will make a useful live bloodworm feeder . |
13 | The areas were also ranked according to the deterioration of their position in three constituent parts of the period 1971–84 ; Liverpool , Sunderland , Belfast and Glasgow appear in the bottom ten in all sub-periods . |
14 | Coffee dripped from the bottom of the cup as DI Frank Gregson lifted it to his mouth and took a sip . |
15 | With a groan that seemed to come from the bottom of the earth , Luke reached down and tore away the lacy silk that covered her . |
16 | Well I think much as I welcome the university proceeding down the road that it is , erm I have a very , very strong feeling that change is going to come from the bottom up , and I think that it 'll come from the bottom up in those colleges , like New College , who have got an increasingly large number of women fellows who feel that , you know , there 's safety in numbers and we can start to do something about it . |
17 | I found in the bottom can I talk to you while you 're doing that or ? |
18 | I found in the bottom of the freezer some pork that I did n't know we had . |
19 | and for our team achievement is climbing from the bottom to the top of the North Stack in Anglesey … its not Everest … and its been climbed many times before but this is where you taste the true flavour of British mountaineering … |
20 | When the temperature gradient exceeds a critical value , convection currents start — the liquid all wants to rise to the top of the layer , but some must fall to the bottom . |
21 | Larval dragonflies hunt on the bottom of ponds , grabbing worms and other small creatures with long protrusible mouth-parts . |
22 | I plummet to the bottom of a deep , deep well . |
23 | Nothing to do whether it was you from , from Saturday he 's never been the same , will you pick up your pen before they go on the floor , what else have you got lurking on the bottom of your bed ? |
24 | They have two lead strips on the bottom . |
25 | We when you say on the bottom , sort of was the bottom put on the side slightly ? |
26 | Jo put her arms straight up and sank to the bottom , kicked off and came up shaking her head . |
27 | Much of the oil either dissolved , sank to the bottom or evaporated . |
28 | If danger is sensed air can be expelled from the lung , and the snail , releasing any grip on an object , drops to the bottom , its operculum closing the shell . |
29 | Tie securely with string around the sacking and place on the bottom of the pond . |
30 | Delays in decision-making can be a difficulty as it takes time for problems at the bottom to come to the notice of people at the top , and for ideas at the top to percolate to the bottom . |