Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] [art] bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 6 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Get your levers , right , put it in the bottom , right , then that one , then that one . |
| 9 | take it down and put it in the bottom of the |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | just let it at the bottom . |
| 13 | He wound the cord tightly and buried it in the bottom of his trouser pocket . |
| 14 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You can see it from the bottom of our garden |
| 17 | they still leave you room to put it on the bottom of the thing and I just scrubbed that . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Secure it at the bottom , the angle becoming more gradual and eventually flat as it reaches the base . |
| 23 | He pokes it through the bottom of the popcorn box they share . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 27 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I just called to say I 'm happy and I mean it from the bottom of my heart , ’ said Stevie . |
| 30 | First , the testator takes a blank piece of paper and signs it at the bottom . |