Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | For days the team had sat out harrowing gales and -50C temperatures , waiting to go for the top . |
| 2 | ‘ Mother , for all I care , she can abseil off the top of Harrods if that 's her pleasure . |
| 3 | ‘ Hmm — where 's Azor , by the way ? ’ she asked off the top of her head . |
| 4 | I ca n't think off the top of my head |
| 5 | I 'm not ambitious enough to try for the top . ’ |
| 6 | Tipped for the top by A&R folk as soon as they showed their faces in the capital , their label Phffft ! was snapped up in a deal with Phonogram , and their second single , a four track EP led by ‘ Yesterday Today ’ is out this week . |
| 7 | YOUNG Chris Bart-Williams is being tipped for the top by Trevor Francis — a teenage star himself before Chris was even born . |
| 8 | Tipped for the top |
| 9 | Melanie already knew I was popular with the fair sex , but when she discovered I was tipped for the top in my career as well she decided it might be a good idea to marry me . ’ |
| 10 | Dubbed Britain 's answer to the Supremes , the Divas were tipped for the top . |
| 11 | The single 's out on Kingslake records and the band , described in a national music magazine as ankle biting rockers , are being tipped for the top . |
| 12 | He does not court publicity having witnessed other ministers who were tipped for the top and never made it . |
| 13 | They want to know what ‘ Cool As F— ’ means when they 're just things that have come off the top of your head and you 've stuck on a T-shirt . ’ |
| 14 | The cast on , or hip measurement , must of course , be the same figure as that which you used for the top of your skirt program . |
| 15 | That 's the sort of colour you want for the top of your is n't it ? |
| 16 | He extended the midsummer sunrise line in both directions to pass through the top of Sidbury Hill to the north-east , and touch the earthworks of Grovely Castle and Castle Ditches in the other direction . |
| 17 | The fear was there again , from last summer , when Peter had climbed the long ladder up to the clock tower and had frozen near the top ; Barnes had had to talk him down . |
| 18 | She strides out , her bags banging against the top of her hip . |
| 19 | Her head went down sharply , cracking against the top of the wall , stunning her . |
| 20 | Reinforced fencing has also had to be installed along the top of the cliff face to try and reduce the danger of people committing suicide by jumping off the top . |
| 21 | Adding to the carnival atmosphere on the summit , which is in fact an incredibly exposed thin strip of black scree , were several camera crews helicoptered onto the top , notably a Blue Peter team following Karma and Sirendra , a 16 year old Nepalese boy who climbed the mountain with Ed Drummond . |
| 22 | Inkwells were let into the top of the desks and each Friday afternoon the ink monitors from Standard Seven would arrive with trays , collect these inkwells , take them into the lobby and refill them with very watery ink from a small water can . |
| 23 | Leave to dry , then press into the top of the cake . |
| 24 | I love it when they put their hand right there and you can feel their fingers in your hair and pressing into the top of the back of your neck . |
| 25 | I 'm up here on the … no , it 's not a stage , it 's a swimming pool , and I 'm walking along the top of it . |
| 26 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 27 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |
| 28 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 29 | No , here a modicum of route-finding skill may be required , particularly if you choose to sample the routes described briefly below , for several must be located from the top . |
| 30 | Health authorities were asked to respond to the data they received and explain to their RHA any " outliers " , that is indicators appearing in the top or bottom l5 per cent of the national league table . |