Example sentences of "[vb past] to the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicester 19pts Northampton 22 NORTHAMPTON , boosted by 14 points from outside-half John Steele , moved to the top of Courage League One last night after the narrowest of victories in a splendid contest at Welford Road . |
| 2 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 3 | Brannen moved to the top of the UK rankings for 1991 with 7,656 points and earned selection for the World Championships in Tokyo . |
| 4 | The council had even offered to provide emergency furniture for the family , who leap-frogged to the top of the housing list after being reunited in Cambridge earlier this week . |
| 5 | The most enterprising and literate , those few who had travelled , in the army or otherwise , and the thin cream of village intelligenty ( agronomists and the like ) everywhere rose to the top in order to represent their less sophisticated brethren . |
| 6 | In 1990 a woman rose to the top at West Point , by becoming brigade commander and the first female captain of the corps of cadets . |
| 7 | The wax melted , and rose to the top . |
| 8 | At the end of the 1980s environmental issues rose to the top of the agenda and suddenly we were all ‘ greens ’ as attention was directed , towards environmental issues . |
| 9 | Finally , we bumped to the top . |
| 10 | He staggered to the top of the ramp and the dots became the heads of Gurder and Pion . |
| 11 | The following day was a total white-out , although this did not stop the intrepid skiers , as we headed to the top of Roc des 3 Marches and down into Meribel Mottaret . |
| 12 | The solid mixture is then dissolved in a small amount of the solvent and added to the top of the column . |
| 13 | But ‘ the social worker put her name down for an EMI bed — eventually her name came to the top of the waiting list , and the social worker put her in . |
| 14 | Firstly , the ore was hand picked over to take out " deads " ( that is , any rock that bore no ore whatsoever ) ; then it was crushed by hand or by machines to a workable size ; then last of all it was washed on racks that shook heavy ore to the bottom while the lighter spar came to the top and was washed or scraped away . |
| 15 | But , just as she was beginning to feel marginally more confident , she came to the top of a straight slope , and , before she could back off from it , found herself being carried away . |
| 16 | They were being pulled steadily , Felipe digging his feet into the side of the cliff , and as they came to the top he eased Maggie over the edge and them came up himself . |
| 17 | I mean she was upstairs three quarters of an hour and when she came to the top of the stairs she still just had her vest and knickers on . |
| 18 | MOTHERWELL climbed to the top of the Scottish Premier Division for the first time since League reconstruction 14 years ago with a 1-0 win over Rangers at Fir Park last night . |
| 19 | From the bottom of the list of nominees he climbed to the top . |
| 20 | Without telling anyone , I climbed to the top of the brick wall , looked over , it had about a nine foot drop on the other side and there in a Tate Sugar Box with a slatted front was a caged cockbird . |
| 21 | His heart thumping with anticipation , he climbed to the top and gazed around . |
| 22 | He said that one group had foolishly tried to cross and sixteen sheep had been lost — some swept right off the path as they climbed to the top , some left injured or dead , buried in snow at the bottom of a hidden ravine . |
| 23 | It was an experience to be repeated many times as the canal climbed to the top of the Pennines . |
| 24 | As he climbed to the top of his stylistic hierarchy Tolkien on occasion wrote in the responses he wanted instead of evoking them . |
| 25 | TWO new names climbed to the top of Flat racing 's roll of honour in 1992 . |
| 26 | I climbed to the top of Conachair and Mullagh Mør and was choked with emotion at the cliffscapes and the interplay of sun on sea and land . |
| 27 | She could hear them as she climbed to the top of the tower . |
| 28 | He climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid only to find inscribed in black letters " a certain Buffard , 79 Rue Saint-Martin , wallpaper manufacturer . " |
| 29 | Daniel and James Kelly climbed to the top of the rock , but at first the others did not move — they were too cold , too tired , too frightened . |
| 30 | He turned away , angry with himself , and climbed to the top of the rock . |