Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] at the bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 2 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 3 | The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it . |
| 4 | Sit down on your bottom and I 'll catch you at the bottom , right you ready ? |
| 5 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 9 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 10 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 11 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 12 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
| 13 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 14 | If you have a young family a sandpit can be popular but do n't site it at the bottom of the garden out of sight . |
| 15 | just let it at the bottom . |
| 16 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 17 | The cab has arrived , we can see it at the bottom of the stairs , grunting in anticipation , straining to be clutched and directed , to take us away . |
| 18 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 19 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 20 | Secure it at the bottom , the angle becoming more gradual and eventually flat as it reaches the base . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 22 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 23 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |
| 26 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 27 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 28 | You did put it at the bottom did n't you Kyle ? |
| 29 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 30 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |