Example sentences of "[vb pp] on top [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was ‘ entirely his affair . |
| 2 | Although the Hauptdolomit was primarily located on top of the Z1 Anhydrite platform , it prograded basinwards to some extent and overlays the carbonate mudstones of the Stinkdolomit in some wells ( see Figs. 18 , 19 and 25 ) . |
| 3 | A conical party hat was now perched on top of the grey stubble , with the elastic stretched under my chin . |
| 4 | Langres , a fortress town enclosed by four kilometres of ancient ramparts and perched on top of a 100-metre-high plateau , some seventy-five kilometres north of Dijon and the Côte de Beaune , dominates the Marne valley . |
| 5 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 6 | Perched on top of the Central Criminal Court in London stands a golden statue . |
| 7 | There was an old wooden house perched on top of a small hill , and the featureless cabins were spread out across the property below . |
| 8 | They climbed up to the small tower that was perched on top of the terminal building . |
| 9 | Schaffhausen is dominated by the sixteenth-century Munol fortress , perched on top of a hillock and towering over half-timbered houses sleeping by the water . |
| 10 | This allowed it to veer off course quite readily unless the steering or correction stroke was timed to strike when the kayak was perched on top of the wave . |
| 11 | But on that day there was a new variety of fruit , a single example , perched on top of the pile . |
| 12 | It is perched on top of a rock just off the Normandy coast and is connected to the mainland by a causeway ( 435 ) . |
| 13 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 14 | At 507x464x362mm and 40lbs weight , the DSP 's extension cab is relatively painless to cart around ; plus , it 's designed to have the combo sat on top of it . |
| 15 | bit more thickness than I hoped , er but if it 's sat on top of there and on top of what 's on . |
| 16 | CLENCHED on top of each other like building blocks , his hands are putting on a show of determination . |
| 17 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |
| 18 | When Tuesby & Cooper published their catalogue there was already a considerable variety of ‘ finishes ’ available for coffin furniture : gilt copper , copper , bronze , brass , silver and ‘ white ’ ( tin-dipped stamped iron , though silver leaf was sometimes applied on top of the tin ) ; black ( more expensive than silver , being tin-dipped stamped iron painted with two or more coats of matt black paint ) ; and ‘ coloured ’ for children 's coffins ( tin-dipped stamped iron , painted with two or more coats of matt white with certain details highlighted with water-gilding ) . |
| 19 | The very ‘ solid ’ cabinet of the 103/4 is made largely of particle board but has an additional panel of computer-routed , grey-painted Medite applied on top of it to form a slightly proud baffle area . |
| 20 | The part of the barn sited on top of these areas thus became a loft raised above the threshing floor . |
| 21 | The church mentioned above , which is sited on top of a steep hill , was built in 1735 and has beautiful inlaid wooden alters of that era . |
| 22 | It is sited on top of a hill in an attractive old town overlooking ( and reflected in ) the river . |
| 23 | Pack with cardboard or with hard-backed envelopes and make sure that there are no paper clips to pierce the prints and that the address is not written on top of them in ballpoint pen ! |
| 24 | The next riser can them be positioned on top of the tread , using a short batten to measure from the front of it , to keep the tread widths even . |
| 25 | A mesh is to be positioned on top of the existing boundary wall at Loftus Youth and Community Centre to prevent balls coming over the fence into the gardens of nearby houses . |
| 26 | Hard to talk though ; the machines are as noisy as the trains back at the flats and there 's pop music screaming out all day long from the radio wedged on top of the mantelpiece . |
| 27 | ‘ I hear people passing and saying ‘ How on earth do they allow a porch to be built on top of the pavement ? ’ |
| 28 | This continued until it was realized that the fairies objected to the site , and the church was then built on top of the hill , which satisfied the fairies . |
| 29 | She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark . |
| 30 | Finally the Master/Slave VME T9000 board , built on top of Chorus is for use as a VME controller . |