Example sentences of "was at the bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was at the bottom of a valley near the reservoir , surrounded by rolling hills . |
| 2 | offered to massage me , but as all the pain was at the bottom of my tummy and I was sitting up , this was a little on the difficult side ! |
| 3 | They used to go down to the clogger 's shop , which was at the bottom of the road where they lived , and he used to make toast , make a drink , and they used to sit round by the light of a candle , eating toast and drinking . |
| 4 | So far as the original Gramophone Company was concerned , dark green was at the bottom of the pecking-order , although in Britain such records carried a different trade-name , Zonophone . |
| 5 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 6 | There was a hill there , pretty steep , and the bar was at the bottom of it . |
| 7 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 8 | A woman 's number was at the bottom of the Time Out piece and it was with some feelings of fear that I decided to ring it , not knowing who or what I would find . |
| 9 | But he lay still , his eyes ever watchful on the white farmhouse that was at the bottom of the valley some two hundred yards away . |
| 10 | So everyone called it Druid 's Bottom because it was at the bottom of the Grove . ’ |
| 11 | One was later found in a shallow grave in the New Forest , the other — his body wrapped in chains — was at the bottom of the Thames . |
| 12 | She was at the bottom of the stairs , he was two steps up . |
| 13 | Yes well it was er we lived at the top of the second hill and this school was at the bottom . |
| 14 | Maybe the lad was at the bottom of the heap , but his spirit had not been broken . |
| 15 | The Hearthware was dressed in a plain hide jerkin ; most of their armour had been lost in the flight north and was at the bottom of the river by now . |
| 16 | If they thought that Amy was at the bottom of the Broad , they 'd be dragging it . |
| 17 | The pumps was at the bottom of the adit . |
| 18 | And Caswell was at the bottom of it … ’ |
| 19 | Indeed , Philby was at the bottom of a pint of mild . |
| 20 | If it was at the bottom where it 's flat , where you just , you 're just coming down , and then you started to go up again , just at the bottom there , it 's , it 's zero for |
| 21 | It was at the bottom of a 5ft deep pit and no attempt had been made to disguise the body . |
| 22 | and I was at the bottom |
| 23 | the sticker was at the bottom , and there was nothing at the top and she , and she was still looking down at it , in other words there was nothing in it before |
| 24 | I should have thought it was at the bottom |
| 25 | But you said he was at the bottom of the stairs I was at the top and you were in his office |
| 26 | But that was at the bottom of the second paragraph . |