Example sentences of "from [noun] to bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external obliques are situated either side of the rectus abdominis , and run diagonally from top to bottom . |
| 2 | When ordering Thermoclear always state width and length carefully — and ensure that the ribs will run from top to bottom ( ridge to eaves ) and NOT sideways . |
| 3 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 4 | Above , from top to bottom , Armani devotees : Don Johnson for Miami Vice , Anjelica Huston , the bad guys in The Untouchables , Harrison Ford , Michelle Pfeiffer , Julia Roberts . |
| 5 | They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom . |
| 6 | The curds are then cut with a curd knife , from top to bottom and from side to side , and , after a short time , the curd sinks to the bottom of the vat and the whey rises . |
| 7 | Where her tooth had fallen nut a sturdy new one was forcing its way up , with frilled edges and ridged from top to bottom . |
| 8 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 9 | From top to bottom this was a society , which as David Ganz has so well observed in connection with the predestination controversy , ‘ was all too aware of its sins , all too uncertain of their forgiveness ’ . |
| 10 | Reading from top to bottom , the series 1 , 2 , 3 is known as architectural form , an unfortunate and misleading phrase derived from the bottom weighting of masonry , necessary to its stability . |
| 11 | There 's co-operation from top to bottom in all respects . ’ |
| 12 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 13 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom , he said , in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 14 | By dressing both the bride and the cake from top to bottom in virginal white , they created a wholly unintentional but blissful metaphor . |
| 15 | THE coming attractions at the Metropolitan Museum include a gallery hung , from top to bottom , with a permanent show of empty picture frames . |
| 16 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 17 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 18 | In front of each was a Chinese bowl and in the middle of the table from top to bottom were some dozen bottles of Black Label Johnnie Walker whiskey . |
| 19 | When you can do this easily your lungs will be free to fill from top to bottom , so take a few deep , slow but gentle breaths . |
| 20 | Take the kid to the big stores and they 'd be rigged out from top to bottom — all stamped PACA . |
| 21 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 22 | Fig. 1.12 Root marks on bone : Recent cow rib from Draycott , Somerset ; the cow died in 1977 and was excavated 8 years later , and the vegetation around the bone was exclusively nettles ( breadth of root impressions is approximately 300 microns ) ; the root marks are shown in three increasing magnifications from top to bottom : A ×12 ; B ×15 , C ×75 . |
| 23 | Not only did we double-glaze and fitted-Tintawn the whole place from top to bottom but I got my Dream Kitchen ! |
| 24 | Many 's the time I 've slipped from top to bottom of the ladder , making a noise like the crack of doom , which was not however , sufficient to wake them ( as I could tell by their uninterrupted snores ) . |
| 25 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
| 26 | First she was terrified there was a burglar , then when she 'd searched the house from top to bottom she got mad and shoved me back to bed . |
| 27 | Whereupon he opened a huge cupboard which was filled from top to bottom with homemade jams , marmalades , chutneys , and pickles — some of which were five years old ! |
| 28 | So she caught me up and turned me round , feeling my load from top to bottom and every side . |
| 29 | Gone are the days when a couple furnished their house from top to bottom in a style that fitted in with the tastes of friends , neighbours , colleagues at work , or cronies down at the pub or tennis club . |
| 30 | I begin with this area because , firstly , it is towards the top of the paper and it is always preferable to work from top to bottom to alleviate unwanted smudging . |