Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [art] bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doyle indicated the tall building , just visible behind the scattered beech and ash trees that clustered at the bottom of every garden , and along the small roadways . |
| 2 | Detritus — Also sometimes known as mulm , this describes the mixture of tiny waste items that gathers at the bottom and in the filters of any tank set-up . |
| 3 | Everything she hated was white : that slice of custard just now ; these little stones hard as sugared almonds at a christening ; the cones of rice , curly as white hyacinths , floating in a sea of whipped egg white , that they had as a supper treat ; the damask of the tablecloth that her sweaty palms would soil ; the chilly marble of the fireplace in the white salon ; the glistening pearls of tapioca that lurked at the bottom of soup . |
| 4 | It means instead the end of childhood and freedom , the beginning of a new life as a slave and chattel at the bottom of a hierarchy in someone else 's family . |
| 5 | Donna licked her tongue across her dry lips and stopped at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 6 | She opened the door and jumped — and landed at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 7 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 8 | But before she could settle to it , there was a sudden scrambling and slithering at the bottom of the slope . |
| 9 | Heathcliff had come into the house and stood at the bottom of the stairs , looking up . |
| 10 | The kraken is generally believed to be a type of giant cephalopod which normally lives and feeds at the bottom of the ocean . |
| 11 | Ash privies were an improvement , as they were built above ground level and cemented at the bottom ; ash was thrown in at the front and the contents withdrawn through a door at the back . |
| 12 | Among features of Les Jones homes which are not often found elsewhere are Jacobean bricks below the damp proof coursing , window sills and chimney stacks ; walls and roof trusses of superior quality ; with every single roof tile nailed at the top and clipped at the bottom , with a four inch overlap to the next tile . |
| 13 | One observer called it a ‘ pizza box with a beer belly ’ , not higher , but sagging at the bottom and hugging the desktop a little closer . |