Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | She strides out , her bags banging against the top of her hip . |
| 2 | Her head went down sharply , cracking against the top of the wall , stunning her . |
| 3 | I love it when they put their hand right there and you can feel their fingers in your hair and pressing into the top of the back of your neck . |
| 4 | I 'm up here on the … no , it 's not a stage , it 's a swimming pool , and I 'm walking along the top of it . |
| 5 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 6 | Health authorities were asked to respond to the data they received and explain to their RHA any " outliers " , that is indicators appearing in the top or bottom l5 per cent of the national league table . |
| 7 | Last year , walking in a forest above Lake Geneva , I saw terrible evidence of this as acre after acre of trees seemed to be dying from the top down . |
| 8 | Bu but if anybody wanted to rationalise anything properly you could actually start civilianising from the top |
| 9 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |
| 10 | In some places you get fans banging on the top of the dug-out and at others they lean forward and actually shout into managers ' faces . |
| 11 | Fergus said , appearing over the top of the couch , gunless . |
| 12 | Returning to the top of the pile , she began to read the Sunday Times story . |
| 13 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 14 | And what about the scent of the bracken , the feel of the grassy bank we 're sitting on — to say nothing of those people over there who , like ourselves , are resting before climbing to the top ? ’ |
| 15 | Climbing to the top of a precipice in the company of a psychopath was not something she would have considered in her normal state of mind , she felt sure . |
| 16 | We had barely forty minutes there , but we still managed to walk the whole huge complex , even climbing to the top of the smaller Pyramid of the Moon . |
| 17 | In temperament he was not unlike Surere , a career official who had dedicated himself to climbing to the top of the power structure , though he had chosen the priesthood as his channel . |
| 18 | TIRED but triumphant , Rebecca Stephens arrived home today less than a week after climbing to the top of the world . |
| 19 | Norweigan Jan Aage Fjortoft was climbing to the top … he scored one of the Norway goals that put paid to Poland and stamped his country 's ticket for America and the 94 world cup … |
| 20 | Something inside me stretched as I walked so that at the same time I was walking on the top of those hills . |
| 21 | Without a word the South African began to scoop up the other twenty-four piles and tip them one by one into a stout canvas bag with drawstring at the top . |
| 22 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 23 | That just depicts the same structure in terms of constituents and sub-constituents , so the whole thing is a sentence which in the bracketing notation just has the sentence with its bracket and the other bracket 's way down the other end , and this is mirrored by the label sentence occurring at the top of the tree , it means it covers everything below it roughly . |
| 24 | My brother and I would imagine all manner of things to be lurking at the top , from demons ' castles to wizards and fairies . |
| 25 | So if it is happening at club level you can guarantee it is happening at the top . |
| 26 | A favoured hypothesis is that the persistence of a large body of magma allows it to become vertically stratified with the more viscous and gas-rich component accumulating towards the top ( Fig. 5.16 ) . |
| 27 | from escaping through the top and if you 're i if it 's a fa you know , there 's some light or disturbance you and want to sleep and the best thing to do is to go into a light doze cos , you know , you ca n't do much else that 's cover your face . |
| 28 | As well as Steve 's publications our newssheet covers such topics as spotting grounds from branch line trains and local buses , and our most recent sheet contained an article on a spectacular view of Northtown 's thatched terraces that can be obtained by skateboarding off the top of the multi-storey on to the roof of Lloyds Bank . |
| 29 | First , the changeover from the strange-attractor regime to the stable periodic orbit regime is associated with passing through the top of the spiral of homoclinic orbits in Fig. 6.2 ; the usual parameter value b = 8/3 lies just above the point X of Fig. 6.2 . |
| 30 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |