Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at [art] bottom [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As soon as I get to sleep , I dream I 'm at the bottom of the sea . ’ |
2 | The earth curved up and around me wherever I went , as if I were at the bottom of a dish , and no matter how far I travelled I could get no nearer the rim — like a spaceman hurtling , as he thinks , towards the edge of the universe , only to find it unfolding before him and closing in behind , so that he is always at the centre . |
3 | Nor are glamorous stiletto shoes safe until you are at the bottom of the stairs ; do not attempt to come down wearing them as the danger is very real — Winston Churchill 's mother lost a leg that way . |
4 | Organizations like this are not good at remembering the things you have done well and if , as most of us are , you are at the bottom of the pile , you will find that you are considered to be alternately either the best thing since sliced bread , or a liability to the organization . |
5 | It 's obviously best that he continues to believe you 're at the bottom of the Danube , or halfway to the Black Sea by now . ’ |
6 | The last thing you need when you 're at the bottom of the table is to concede an early free kick but today Notts did just that . |
7 | but er , I do n't I , I obviously gone have a way of doing this , but erm , it 's difficult , if you , if you 're at the bottom of the |
8 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
9 | She was at the bottom of the stairs , he was two steps up . |
10 | If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs . |
11 | Now , we are at the bottom of the league . |
12 | ‘ Coming in as an outsider probably helped as a bit of a catalyst but really it was the fact that we were at the bottom of the underwriting cycle and everyone was looking to improve results and build up market share . ’ |
13 | However , the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) asserted that we were at the bottom of the league . |
14 | They are at the bottom of the heap . |
15 | Suppose they 're at the bottom of the sea now . |
16 | They were at the bottom of the hill . |
17 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
18 | The two of them were at the bottom of Heymouth Brae where official transport was ferrying people up and down , and to and from the railway station . |
19 | The chances are you 've not yet considered the security of your home , not a lot of people do — it 's at the bottom of a long list of priorities . |
20 | I bet it 's at the bottom of the River Thames , by now . |
21 | It 's at the bottom of page . |
22 | I say this last , only because it is at the bottom of my mind , deep hid and permanent , not because it is least . |
23 | And if it is at the bottom of the ocean - " He stopped . |
24 | I think he 's at the bottom of a bog with a hole in his head and they 're waiting to scoop her up at the right moment . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | So everyone called it Druid 's Bottom because it was at the bottom of the Grove . ’ |
27 | It was at the bottom of a 5ft deep pit and no attempt had been made to disguise the body . |
28 | But you said he was at the bottom of the stairs I was at the top and you were in his office |