Example sentences of "of [noun pl] at the bottom " in BNC.

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1 The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology .
2 She looked out through the big picture window and across the manicured lawn and down towards the ponds and away towards the line of birches at the bottom of the garden .
3 He could see a group of men at the bottom , surrounding the Glory .
4 Erm also there was no er reference to er the er er frequency of reports at the bottom of the er bottom of the sheet .
5 Then gently place the children into the helter-skelter , and make a pile of mats at the bottom .
6 If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible .
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