Example sentences of "[pers pn] at the bottom of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 4 | There 's a nurse is in bed and the next thing the nurse wakes up to find him at the bottom of the bed . |
| 5 | Wilcox waited impatiently for her at the bottom of the final staircase . |
| 6 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 7 | Clare was in the bathroom , and he waited for her at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 8 | Luke was waiting for her at the bottom of the staircase , fifteen minutes later , looking — surprise , surprise ! — extremely impatient . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
| 13 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The man was going to meet me at the bottom of Ber Street . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 21 | It would be better to try and beat them at the bottom of the curve rather than when the South Africans were improving . |
| 22 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
| 23 | But a lot of them at the bottom of the garden . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We could build a stable , put them at the bottom of the garden and how expensive the |
| 27 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 28 | My mother would hide his food from us at the bottom of one of the holes in the oven . |