Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before Molly could answer they all looked out as a car breasted the top of the small hill and lit them as brightly as actors on a stage . |
| 2 | A wooden Tudor bowl and a cider flagon cover the top of a pine haberdasher 's chest ; the framed crewelwork behind must have been ‘ horrendously bright ’ at one time , but has now faded to more acceptably gentle colours . |
| 3 | Carry on , bearing south-west to reach the top of Gat Cliff where you will find the Worsley Monument . |
| 4 | Walkers who have no desire to locate the potholes of Newby Moss and refuse to be deflected from their intention to reach the top of Ingleborough can best achieve their objective by continuing upwards , guided by Grey Wife Sike across the rough and rising terrain of Ingleborough Common . |
| 5 | When the bean vine reaches the top of the cane , pinch out the growing point . |
| 6 | Fold over the bacon to cover the top . |
| 7 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 8 | At the same time Major announced a cut of 1 percentage point in the minimum lending rate , to 14 per cent , and said on Oct. 7 that revaluation of the pound within the ERM was a possible alternative to further interest rate cuts if the pound reached the top of its permitted fluctuation range . |
| 9 | There 's a great white fortress of a monastery crowning the top of the island . |
| 10 | The first runner to reach the top is not necessarily going to hold his lead on the descent . |
| 11 | Phil was amazed to watch a cross-breed Labrador remove the top off a bottle , turn it on its side , gulp down the milk and run off , licking his lips ! |
| 12 | Roll just over half of the remaining marzipan to fit the top of the cake . |
| 13 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 14 | Very carefully , without looking right or left , Tug punctured the top of his egg with his fork . |
| 15 | ‘ The firework burned the top of her head but it was lucky it was n't her face . ’ |
| 16 | This confirms the trend towards women starting their own businesses ( 40% of new , small businesses are now begun by female entrepreneurs , many home-based ) , and avoiding macho and masochistic corporate cultures — where the majority of you feel ‘ women lack the confidence to reach the top ’ . |
| 17 | Zina Garrison , perhaps one of the best known black tennis players to have emerged in the 1980's , recalls in John Feinstein 's book , Hard Courts , the incident in 1975 which first prompted her desire to reach the top . |
| 18 | A plump old man sitting in a wooden scaffold on a marine building site sawed the top off an immense teak column to make it flush with the decking . |
| 19 | ‘ Lead yer hoss ower the top , mister ! ’ the boy shouted . |
| 20 | There is , however , one further difference affecting the top half of.the diagram . |
| 21 | Theodora 's eye reached the top of the spire as she drank the last of the sherry . |
| 22 | He hit it into the hill and the ball caught the top of the bunker and went in 60 yards from the flag . |
| 23 | There were wet rings of sweat marking the top of his shirt-sleeves under his arms . |
| 24 | The engine does n't have the power output to match the top of the executive ranges , but it is certainly adequate . |
| 25 | Everyone watched as the water reached the top of the men 's thighs , then their hips , before finally becoming shallower again as they passed the mid-point in the river and approached the opposite bank . |
| 26 | Ruth 's hair was out of shape and did n't do justice to her strong bone structure so stylist Caroline Stacey , also from Keith Hall the Hairdressers , but from their Leicester salon , decided to take the weight out of the back leaving the top longer . |
| 27 | Consequently , although the brown water lapped the top of the front steps , it had not yet reached the interior . |
| 28 | As the lift approached the top , the chair in front of the boys stopped — jammed in the wheels of a pylon . |
| 29 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 30 | A regimental button overlaps the top of each loop . |