Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] bottom of " in BNC.

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1 She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe .
2 Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl .
3 Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave .
4 the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table …
5 So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm .
6 He wound the cord tightly and buried it in the bottom of his trouser pocket .
7 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 .
8 Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser .
9 ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said .
10 She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs .
11 Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs .
12 She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart .
13 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 .
14 Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill .
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