Example sentences of "[pers pn] at [art] bottom [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man at the top leaves go once you 've got it well resting on the ladder and he runs down the stairs to meet you at the bottom by which time you 've got to the bottom rung , he comes takes one side of the wardrobe , you take the other and that 's all there is to it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Your man 's a faceless pig to most people out on the streets , ’ said Hogan nastily , as Cowley led the way through the swing doors of the Ministry building , and hurried towards his chauffeur driven car , waiting for him at the bottom of the steps . |
| 4 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 5 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 6 | Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase . |
| 7 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 8 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 9 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 14 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was a narrow alley with dustbins in it at the bottom of the garden and , beyond that , the rude and unkempt backsides of a row of tenement houses with blind , curtained windows and washing ( long pants , vests , sheets , shirts ) limp in the windless air , strung out on high lines running from pulleys at far-up windows.Tin baths , like giant snails , stuck half-way up the walls as if resting in a trip to the top . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 22 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 24 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 25 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 28 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 29 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 30 | My mother would hide his food from us at the bottom of one of the holes in the oven . |