Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] to bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gabriel took himself to the top of a steep grass slope and , lying full length in the grass , rolled from top to bottom , over and over and over , until he was soaking wet and extremely dizzy . |
| 2 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 6 | The old type of gravity filter is rarely found nowadays , and most works use pressure filters containing beds of graded sand , coarse at the bottom and fine at the top , through which the water is pumped from top to bottom . |
| 7 | The house was perfect — well , it would have been perfect ; it needed a complete overhaul , of course , redecorating from top to bottom , and then I 'd thought of building some guest-houses , and it seemed a little silly to have a villa with perfect anchorage unless I used it , so I 'd thought of a yacht … |
| 8 | The graphics card is a ProDesigner Orchid IIs , with 1Mb video RAM and supports refresh rates ( the rate at which the screen is drawn from top to bottom ) up to 72Hz . |
| 9 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 10 | In this particular chair , as the back legs are set to tilt inwards towards the bottom , the shoulders will be angled from top to bottom of the rail . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Shifts of labour were therefore organised , and these tall fortress-like structures were lit from top to bottom at night , and presented something new and dramatic to those who had the leisure to stay outside and contemplate it with detachment . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The corruption goes from top to bottom , like a cheese , you know . |
| 15 | Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit . |
| 16 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | The colours range from brown to black and pink salmon-beige and alternate in large bands running from top to bottom . |
| 20 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 21 | As with the conventional chart , the dates are marked clearly along the top and the rooms in their different categories run from top to bottom . |
| 22 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Cabinet is split from top to bottom over the Prime Minister 's policy of using Common Market grants for tax cuts instead of for the provision of help to deprived areas . |
| 25 | With a great heave the black claws ripped away Bill 's scalp , his face split from top to bottom revealing the three demonic masks of Hades rising from within . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) A strip of material sewn down the sides and between the inner and outer shell of a down-filled bag , preventing the down from migrating from top to bottom . |
| 27 | What one finds is a continuum extending from top to bottom of the occupational scale ; the ‘ lower ’ on the scale , the lower the proportion identifying as middle class and the higher the proportion identifying as working class . |
| 28 | Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port they traversed from top to bottom , coming into the town through the Porte Saint-Jacques and leaving it again some four or five hundred yards lower down , through the Porte d'Espagne . |
| 29 | Often they are heavily hinged with one can deep shelving from top to bottom of the doors for maximum use of space . |
| 30 | But then I mean come and saw me once , you see , when I was n't there like that and he he tested from top to bottom , he said well ar ar after we sit and talked , and like he said well I better give you the once over , I said th er , certainly . |