Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 2 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 3 | A bright yellow mantle starts from the top of the head and broadens as it stretches across the body , extending into the tail . |
| 4 | Yes , but pretends he 's not watching and he looks over the top of his paper . |
| 5 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 6 | Occasionally two individual pieces are brought together to make a new complex whole as in the bronze cast Doll and Bow which now stands on the top of the Toybox where the toys , including a ball , are again in bronze and the box itself is the broken-off end of a stone carved sarcophagus . |
| 7 | When these shoals meet it is very likely to occur over a groundbaited area which has stopped one shoal in its tracks , and the other shoal pauses over the top to intercept the crumbs which are sent swirling upwards from the feeding shoal on the bottom . |
| 8 | Boris Anrep , for instance , whom the Berkeleys used to encounter when they stayed with Maud Russell at Mottisfont , gave them the model he painted for the mosaics which were intended for the apse of Westminster Cathedral ( it stands on the chest of drawers in their bedroom ) and Hugh Honour and John Fleming gave them the marble hermaphrodite which reclines on the top of a bookcase in the study . |
| 9 | A pulse beats at the top of her long , white neck , under her chin . |
| 10 | A substantial 18th century house known as Magnolia and formerly as the New House , stands at the top of The Narrows . |
| 11 | ‘ We have a saying in my country , ‘ for him who stands at the top of the tower there is no other season but winter . ’ |
| 12 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 13 | John shouts at the top of his voice when he should not ( lines 13 and 14 ) |
| 14 | Sh she shouts at the top of her voice at 'im . |
| 15 | What a wonderful vision the lady who lives at the top of our road shared with us all ! |
| 16 | Met the lady who lives at the top of our road who shared the vision on Sunday night . |
| 17 | In most cases the ileoanal anastomosis lies at the top of the anal columns and hence the anal transition zone is retained ; however , in patients with polyposis we usually perform a mucosectomy and a sutured anastomosis at the denate line . |
| 18 | But the state of financial disorder starts at the top , in a federal government that continues to assert its rights to print money to pay its bills . |
| 19 | Well I suppose most corruption starts at the top does n't it ? |
| 20 | The mineralisation occurs near the top of the Ben Eagach Schist Formation which includes graphitic schist , mica schist and quartzite with thin limestones . |
| 21 | his new wife and also Melanie , ha you know what it says on the top there |
| 22 | The path climbs to the top of Greenleighton Hill ( 983′ ) . |
| 23 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
| 24 | Excluding its OEM partners , which include Fujitsu Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Fuji Xerox Co , Nippon Steel Co , Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and other powerful players , Sun had an 11.4% share of the market last fiscal , putting it in fourth place , but if the OEM sales are included it shoots to the top with a 22.7% share . |
| 25 | It hurts on the top of my arm trying to get my arm round there . |
| 26 | I never got beyond the moment he sets eyes on him , which happens at the top of the second page . |
| 27 | ‘ We can have a big say in what happens at the top of the table , ’ said Quinn . |
| 28 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 29 | ‘ Strategy ’ , it says at the top . |
| 30 | ‘ Annexe A ’ , it says at the top . |