Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORWICH captain John Polston notched his first goal of the season at Carrow Road last night to knock Aston Villa off the top of the FA Premier League in a match that gave the Premier championship race yet another twist . |
| 2 | Instead he was staring wildly at Rocky over the top of her head . |
| 3 | Throgmorton , who surveyed the area after Falconer 's body had been discovered , found no trace of any such slip or , indeed , of anyone else being with Falconer on the top of the tower . ’ |
| 4 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 5 | There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top . |
| 6 | In the London League , Hampstead and Spencer overtook Surbiton , who snatched a draw at Purley ; Ben Rhydding , beaten 3-2 by Sheffield , were overhauled by Preston and Alderley Edge in the North ; while Trojans , held 2-2 by Anchorians , were joined by Chichester at the top of the South . |
| 7 | In himself , Couples has the potential to displace Borg at the top of the pyramid of Great Baffled Victims of Success . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll work with the finest talents in the business , ’ she 'd said earnestly , ‘ you 'll make oodles of money , and you 'll return to the States at the top of your profession . ’ |
| 9 | Success , of course , brings new problems and with Arsenal at the top , the next task was to keep them there . |
| 10 | GEORGE Duffield is still in hot pursuit of Pat Eddery at the top of this season 's jockeys ' table . |
| 11 | Although mentioned by Conan Doyle as a quiet village to which one of Sherlock Holmes ' clients retired , and the birthplace of Mrs. Beeton , of cookery fame , Penge owes its development mainly to the re-erection of the Crystal Palace at the top of Anerley Hill , in 1854 , when it was removed from the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park . |
| 12 | Both use circulating wires to cut smooth faces in the early Carboniferous limestone , and whereas the first was used to build the high monument to the Grande Armee that overlooks Boulogne ( with Napoleon at the top firmly turning his back on England ) , the Indiana quarry produced the stone facings for the Empire State Building in New York . |
| 13 | Cardiff swept to a 46-12 win over Aberavon , and their eight tries knocked Swansea off the top of the Heineken League for the first time since February 5 . |
| 14 | Rincewind watched Hrun over the top of his slab of greasy meat . |
| 15 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 16 | Albert Foundry and the rejuvenated Salisbury are the pace-setters in division two , while Larne have a narrow half point lead over Ards and Willowfield at the top of junior division one . |
| 17 | Opinion polls show 70% of voters oppose the White Paper — most people put the NHS at the top of their list of political concerns . |
| 18 | ‘ If she did , it 'll be in the fridge , ’ responded Camille at the top of her voice . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State argues that to allow what my Bill proposes would be to place Scotland at the top of a slippery slope , but his attitude has the effect of placing Scotland at the edge of a cliff . |
| 20 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |
| 21 | Fiat countered by proposing to merge Alfa with its own Lancia subsidiary and claimed that : ‘ Our aim is to create a company specialising in high performance prestige cars with the sporty , aggressive characteristics of Alfa and the luxurious comfort of Lancia ; a company which can put itself and Fiat at the top of the European car market . ’ |
| 22 | Tommy and Nathan lifted the back and , between the four of them , they half-dragged , half-carried Donald to the top . |
| 23 | The government 's efforts to wipe out bourgeois liberalism abated during the summer of 1987 but many had suffered , from Hu Yaobang at the top to graduating students at the bottom . |
| 24 | The spectacle from The Beacon at the top of the Down was fantastic . |
| 25 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 26 | Robert 's Road at the top |
| 27 | ‘ Friends , Romans , countrymen , ’ shouted Fred Stokes at the top of the Forum steps , carrying Arthur Moe in his arms centre stage . |
| 28 | In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings . |
| 29 | The second series established Pemberley near the top of the TV ratings . |
| 30 | He looked at Withel over the top of the paper . |