Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] top " in BNC.

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1 Emily picked up the knife from the desk and inserted it between the top of the drawer and the desk and after a struggle , the drawer burst open .
2 You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away .
3 It had to be in on the 7th October and we came back the beginning of September , so it was a bit of a rush , and that 's really one of my feelings about it — I sat down and wrote it off the top of my head and not an awful lot is very considered .
4 I just do n't have it off the top of my head , but I am telling you
5 I 've just nipped it off the top of that one , that 's not growing any more
6 Well , that 's all very well but there is one other I would like to add to the list and put it near the top — Downpatrick , who have been battling on their own for years , and who still manage to attract huge crowds as they showed last Monday .
7 Most small networks do n't need a particularly sophisticated cabling regime — if you have your desks facing a wall , you can simply drape the cable down the back of each desk and run it along the top of the skirting board .
8 So I wrote it along the top of the er paper I was using .
9 If this is an improvised one such as a pierced cake tin , without feet to raise it from the plate on which it drains , set it in the top of a basin , mixing bowl , saucepan , wide jar , or any vessel in which it will fit without actually resting on the bottom .
10 He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice .
11 Well they ca n't push it from the top
12 Now take it from the top .
13 Copy it from the top of page forty six and we are then ready to proceed .
14 I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed .
15 Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top ,
16 And take it from the top … but this time the council 's calling the tune .
17 In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ .
18 Breaking through , making it to the top and finding real success is never going to be easy , despite the well-voiced criticism of pop music being ‘ tuneless rubbish ’ .
19 ‘ Shout it to the Top ’ , as The Style Council have it .
20 Many men ( but few women ) deny the existence of subtle impediments that make it particularly difficult for women , blacks , Hispanics and even those talented Asians to make it to the top .
21 He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people .
22 Looks , money , a penchant for power and a great wardrobe — they 're what it takes to make it to the top .
23 Do you dream of making it to the top of the corporate tree whilst still short of the tooth and long in ideas ?
24 Business asked the 10 youngest : ‘ How did you make it to the top so quickly ? ’
25 If the net encircles , it becomes necessary to fasten it to the top and the bottom of each of the stakes that holds the net erect .
26 Ambitious to make it to the top , she divorced her first husband , became one of the country 's leading models and in 1946 had her first screen test with Twentieth Century-Fox .
27 Will wiggling your bottom help you make it to the top ?
28 Only nine people have made it to the top in winter — and one died on the way down .
29 So far only a small number of women have made it to the top .
30 Neville 's determination paid off : he made it to the top , raising £55,000 on the way .
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