Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] bottom " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | the goal of the week … has to be the United winner against Stoke … it lifted them off the bottom of the table … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wound the cord tightly and buried it in the bottom of his trouser pocket . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Elkington rammed it into the bottom of one of his ineffective ditches and , to his astonishment , water burst up like a geyser . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 11 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 12 | Fox met him at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 13 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Every evening when she called ‘ Overture ’ and ‘ Beginners ’ Richard St Ives dragged her through the doorway and , putting her across his knee , whacked her on the bottom with a rolled-up copy of The Stage . |
| 16 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 17 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |