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Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] top " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging .
2	He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house .
3	Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried .
4	Pay in the professional grade of the civil service is better at starting than in the administrative grade , and it is only one step down at the top .
5	For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head .
6	Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist .
7	This is actually shown to be level with the sixth step , so if the man sensibly puts the load down at the top of the stairs then 100 joules is the answer .
8	In making up , sew down the strip at the lower edge of the cable at the back and thread it up through the cable twist to sew it in at the top .
9	I 've left one thing showing , this if you , you 'd got , you tuck it in at the top there if you 've got some room , right , I 've left her thumb out , so that if this is too tight I can check the circulation , if the pink comes back it 's okay , can you get your fingers out ?
10	The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station .
11	The raw materials that go in at the top are iron ore , limestone and What else goes in there ?
12	Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace .
13	Shin up the fireman 's poles to heights never reached before but before careful the potato does n't bash your head in at the top .
14	Shin up the fireman 's poles to heights never reached before but before careful the potato does n't bash your head in at the top .
15	‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’
16	A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years .
17	you go in at the top of
18	And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself .
19	took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey .
20	You can enter from the main road running along Teesdale but there is no way through at the top of the dale , unless you travel on horseback , or on foot , if you possess the stamina and know how to use a compass .
21	Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top .
22	And she 's got another through at the top now .
23	Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ .
24	She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform .
25	Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture .
26	I 'm not gon na cut it , hang on , listen cut that off at the top
27	Yeah , the front just hinges off at the top .
28	The so-called big men up at the top do n't care about us .
29	They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society .
30	Up at the top there was a right turn , but he went on .