Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] bottom " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 2 | It was situated at the bottom of York Street along with Edward , Vulcan and Howard Streets , York Street ran off Cleveland Street beside the main rail line . |
| 3 | It was hidden at the bottom of a drawer , remember . |
| 4 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 5 | When Whittlesey Mere was drained in the 1850s , a heap of dressed stone was found at the bottom of the lake , evidence of a medieval boating accident . |
| 6 | I believe he was found at the bottom of the same cliff . |
| 7 | ‘ Early on Wednesday morning the body of a young man was found at the bottom of the cliff at Adwy-yr-Eryon . |
| 8 | Police describe Tyrone Evans as extremely dangerous.He 's charged with dismembering the body of a man whose torso was found at the bottom of a lake . |
| 9 | This was echoed at the bottom of the dress . |
| 10 | In the evening when they came back he would crumble salt on a flat stone for them to lick , and once , in addition to their hay , he gave them the heap of grain that was left at the bottom of the fermentation jar when the beer was finished . |
| 11 | The legend goes that the first church was started at the bottom of the hill , but during the night the walls were thrown down . |