Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the bottom " in BNC.
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1 | stitch it on through the bottom round |
2 | And then the stairs the stairs are facing you like that , so you 've only got about about a metre of in between the bottom of the stairs and your front door and you s just sort of go in through there an and you 're in the living room . |
3 | They argued that , at least with respect to earnings , ‘ male clerks and shopworkers are now firmly among the broad mass of ordinary labour ; and indeed often well down towards the bottom of the pile ’ . |
4 | Down below the bottom . |
5 | He lives down near the bottom of Wind Street , got a shop he has , a well-to-do sort of man , better off than me at any rate . ’ |
6 | A couple of feet more water , and he 'd have gone on being carried along near the bottom , and safely out of sight . |
7 | And you can see it 's running down from the bottom , the pressure in n it you see ? |
8 | Now , down in the bottoms , arose the new many-storeyed mills , some of them handsome buildings not too unlike the plain country houses of the time . |
9 | ‘ Landing face down in the bottom of a boat would hardly be the way to win the heart of the woman you love . |
10 | The minute we got settled down in the bottom of our Kalamachka , rocking as if we were inside a boat and ‘ talking about Baghdad ’ , we felt transported to another country . |
11 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
12 | So if these beggars up at the top it was had been er thought out had a break well er it was alri =right for the others working down in the bottom to have a a break . |
13 | Down in the bottom of the tub lies a pinch of pink powder . |
14 | It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp . |
15 | So the camera was right down on the bottom . |
16 | That when we cancelled it all down on the bottom , we were two short on the top . |
17 | Yeah even though she 's down on the bottom she 's bound to of come second |
18 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
19 | Humans are getting you down , and you need to slink away on your own , down to the bottom of the garden , or to a peaceful patio out of the range of everyone . |
20 | Dead graptoloids simply drifted down to the bottom where they were preserved by dark muds at a depth at which there was little oxygen in the water to support bottom-dwelling organisms . |
21 | You had to go right down to the bottom to the lavatory : that was a game , that was . |
22 | Had he gone down to the bottom of the hill and worked his way up to Belvedere Road from the south-east ? |
23 | An aggressive manoeuvre in wave sailing , where the sailor suddenly changes course whilst on the face to bring himself back down to the bottom of the wave . |
24 | This agreed , Christine and Mary ran out and down to the bottom of the long garden where the apple-tree stood . |
25 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
26 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
27 | I 'd go down to the bottom and try all the locks , come up , go along the next street . |
28 | I had thought that , if the worst came to the worst , I could always follow the hillside and make my way down to the bottom . |
29 | ‘ That 's the easiest way of getting your firewood — cut the trees at the edge of the forest and send them rolling down to the bottom . |
30 | But if you do , mix the ingredients well ( the bran tends to filter down to the bottom , in its dry state ) , divide into daily quantities and store in separate plastic storage bags . |