Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hull had the better of the first half struggle with Russ Wilcox their outstanding player , unlucky when his powerful header was tipped over the top . |
| 2 | The posts were eventually taken down and themselves burnt before the mound was built over the top and the ring ditch dug around the outside . |
| 3 | The cover had been zipped over the top of them . |
| 4 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 5 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 6 | It is one of those inexplicable events that a rabbit hole in the middle of a field can be gassed and its population exterminated , the hole filled in and cultivated over the top , yet , even after the passage of a number of years , a rabbit will go to that exact location and restore the old system . |
| 7 | Medieval paintings show twists of cloth jammed into bottlenecks , or cloth or leather tied over the top , sometimes smeared with sealing wax . |
| 8 | Her raincoat was not belted — her skirt was too long — her brown hair hung down her back with a pale blue kerchief tied over the top of it to keep it clean on the train . |
| 9 | Les Phillips running the show in mid-field , Steve Foster defending stoutly at the back and the front runners always giving Spurs problems especially when the ball was played over the top . |
| 10 | As a ball is hit , spins and moves forward , the air that hits the front of the ball is dragged over the top of the ball , creating a slight vacuum on top of the ball . |
| 11 | The marginal platforms appear to have prograded over the top of the mud aprons and when combined with the latter , form lenticular bodies of sediments ( Figs . |
| 12 | Whitton almost broke the deadlock , rising to connect with a Frank Yallop cross , but his firm header was palmed over the top by Kelly . |
| 13 | Broad transparent colour was then placed over the top to complete the effect , with minor details added as necessary . |
| 14 | The first canal tunnels were built without towing paths which meant that horses had to be unhitched and led over the top of the tunnel while the boat was taken through it . |
| 15 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 16 | She 's gone over the top . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
| 18 | When new they are all highly water repellent and dry quickly — provided you have n't gone over the top in a bog hold and got them saturated . |
| 19 | Favourite Silver Wizard ran too freely and Willie Carson said : ‘ He 's gone over the top . ’ |
| 20 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
| 21 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 22 | gone over the top ! |
| 23 | They could have gone over the top you know , I think , I 'm sure they could , I 'm certain they could . |
| 24 | Somehow the chap , who had plainly gone over the top , he could understand that , must be convinced they were no threat to him . |
| 25 | He 's mad , gone over the top . |
| 26 | Summat gone over the top now . |
| 27 | I , I do think they have rather gone over the top . |
| 28 | I knew that the altar was only an old chest freezer with a sheet thrown over the top … but … there could be something inside it . |
| 29 | She waited for a while , then she undressed and climbed into bed , the coat thrown over the top to add extra warmth . |
| 30 | Sunlight at the top of the vent pipe attracts flies from within the pit and if a gauze is fitted over the top they fall back and die in the pit . |