Example sentences of "[adv] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation . |
| 2 | He says that ‘ surgery rather than an aspirin ’ was required , especially at the top of the company . |
| 3 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 4 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 5 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 6 | Pay in the professional grade of the civil service is better at starting than in the administrative grade , and it is only one step down at the top . |
| 7 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 8 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 9 | This is actually shown to be level with the sixth step , so if the man sensibly puts the load down at the top of the stairs then 100 joules is the answer . |
| 10 | Only at the top of Silver Street , beyond an area in which Ottery 's weekly market was anciently held , does the town reveal its more distinctive self . |
| 11 | It would seem that American critics writing in the 1920s and 1930s constructed a specific category when analysing the work of O'Keefe , As Whitney Chadwick stated : ‘ hailed as the epitome of emancipated womanhood , she was accorded star status , but only at the top of a female class . |
| 12 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 13 | In making up , sew down the strip at the lower edge of the cable at the back and thread it up through the cable twist to sew it in at the top . |
| 14 | I 've left one thing showing , this if you , you 'd got , you tuck it in at the top there if you 've got some room , right , I 've left her thumb out , so that if this is too tight I can check the circulation , if the pink comes back it 's okay , can you get your fingers out ? |
| 15 | The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station . |
| 16 | The raw materials that go in at the top are iron ore , limestone and What else goes in there ? |
| 17 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 18 | Shin up the fireman 's poles to heights never reached before but before careful the potato does n't bash your head in at the top . |
| 19 | Shin up the fireman 's poles to heights never reached before but before careful the potato does n't bash your head in at the top . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 21 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 22 | you go in at the top of |
| 23 | The final move is to tie all four loose ends together at the top of the head . |
| 24 | The six steel sheets were inserted into the two widest sides of the trench and bolted together at the top , forming a curved tunnel . |
| 25 | Following excavation for the underpass the piles were faced over their exposed height with a nominal 100 mm thick skin of in-situ facing concrete and tied together at the top by in-situ reinforced capping beams . |
| 26 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 27 | On three sides of this mound there is a colonnade on a raised platform comprising sixteen evenly spaced square pillars of unhewn stone , each thirty-two feet high , linked together at the top by heavy beams with ropes and chains hanging from them at short intervals . |
| 28 | The First Division sees Clydebank and Airdrie still together at the top , with Dunfermline starting to make a charge , they 've climbed to fourth place . |
| 29 | The leather also still looks good , although I 've notices it wearing away at the top of the ankle seam . |
| 30 | And , with Norway roaring away at the top of England 's World Cup group , everyone has been able to see their quality . |