Example sentences of "[pron] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that they have been asked to continue until the next World Cup makes good common sense and I hope it is a sign that at long last someone at the top is finally making the right decisions . |
| 2 | Now he wants to test himself at the top : ‘ I 'm as ambitious as the next man . |
| 3 | ‘ More than twenty thousand , mein Fuhrer , ’ said Buhle , putting himself at the top of the class . |
| 4 | They were also asked to write about ‘ John ’ finding himself at the top of his medical school . |
| 5 | That is to say , there was someone with the responsibility for each operation accountable to ‘ somebody at the top ’ . |
| 6 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 7 | The real menace is the right shoulder , which at the top of the backswing adopts a potentially powerful position . |
| 8 | It 's the door facing you at the top of the stairs . |
| 9 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 10 | I mean , all I use I mean , if I was making them for somebody I would use about four or five layers and then I would put a piece of lace of braid or something at the top |
| 11 | Must be something at the top of that chimney . |
| 12 | There was only room for one at the top and he was it . |
| 13 | The lumps are slowly getting bigger and I have a new one at the top of my leg , the size of a pullet 's egg . |
| 14 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 15 | If he had to make that list of horrible moments , Masklin would have put this one at the top . |
| 16 | Holes were cut in the ends of the filter tank , one at the top the other at the bottom and 1½inch tank connectors were siliconed in place . |
| 17 | It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss . |
| 18 | The units are mounted inside the cabinet in separate sealed compartments as the diagram shows , one at the top , the other at the bottom . |
| 19 | Daniels proposed to add two forms to the Senior , one at the top and one at the bottom , and to take on another master . |
| 20 | Like this one at the top . |
| 21 | The upper gallery was lit only by two of the many triple candle-holders in wall-scounces , one at the top of the stairs , and one down the left corridor that led back to the front of the house . |
| 22 | There was a metal grab bar and two bolts on the outside , one at the top , which could have had padlocks on at some time , to keep playful kids out . |
| 23 | The one at the top is the basic tree , the one on the left is one of " my " insects , and the one on the right has no name but I thought it looked pretty . |
| 24 | Because I never know in London which button to press , either the one at the top or the one at the bottom . |
| 25 | If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody |
| 26 | I 'd like a nice plain one at the top and a patternedy one at the bottom with a nice thick border about as wide as that all the way like on the dado . |
| 27 | sometimes there might be two different names on this , on those , on those photocopies so it might not be the same one at the top and bottom |
| 28 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 29 | 65 per cent of female college students continued a story which begins , ‘ After first term finals , Anne finds herself at the top of her medical school class ’ , by expressing conflicts about success , anticipating its present or future negative consequences , denying the student 's effort or ability , ignoring the cue , or showing other ‘ bizarre or inappropriate responses ’ ( 1972 : 161 , 162 ) . |
| 30 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |