Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] bottom " in BNC.

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1 He pokes it through the bottom of the popcorn box they share .
2 might get it through the bottom , that 'll be simpler wo n't it ?
3 Fishing in deep water Stephano had a powerful run on his mackerel bait and fought a shark for over three quarters of an hour without moving it off the bottom .
4 Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser .
5 There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off .
6 Parkin must have received the note and , in a panic , thrust it into the bottom of the locked drawer , assuming that no one would find it .
7 I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad .
8 He wound the cord tightly and buried it in the bottom of his trouser pocket .
9 Well I 'll tell you tell you who suggested that yesterday now let me have a look it was one of the councillors was n't it said lob it in the bottom of the arboretum lake it was er Conservative Councillor Charles Clarke who said the only suitable place for that daft leaf is in the middle of the arboretum lake .
10 Get your levers , right , put it in the bottom , right , then that one , then that one .
11 take it down and put it in the bottom of the
12 ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie .
13 She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart .
14 And one more coming up , let's take it from the bottom of the pile , literally , and it turns out to be Mrs Diane , Street , Market Harborough .
15 You do it from the bottom .
16 You can see it from the bottom of our garden
17 Clamp it between the two parts of an algae magnet and sink it to the bottom of the tank .
18 ‘ Make it to the bottom and you get a purple heart , ’ he grinned .
19 As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over .
20 Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom .
21 they still leave you room to put it on the bottom of the thing and I just scrubbed that .
22 I know it was was it on the bottom of the A to Z thing ?
23 Lawrence in again , bowls , ooh , and has a bit of trouble with this one , gets it on the bottom of the bat from which it bobbles away , it 's a short leg , and there 's no run .
24 Put a drop of cooking oil in the dish and use your finger to smear it over the bottom and the lower areas of the sides .
25 Mr John Prescott , the Labour transport spokesman , said BR would lose £3.5 billion of public support by 1993 , which would leave it at the bottom of the international league for support and top for fares .
26 She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs .
27 A smith uses a hammer very differently to most tradesmen , never holds it at the bottom of the shaft , for the resulting whip means that power is lost so they always clench the tool near the head .
28 But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without .
29 Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack
30 She had drawn her fair hair high into an elaborate plait down the back of her head and fastened it at the bottom with a wide tortoiseshell clasp : it looked distinguished and competent , but nowhere near cuddly .
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