Example sentences of "it [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 31 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 32 | He had come up from the bottom and made it to the top : no one was to forget that he was at the top and everyone was supposed to forget where he had come from and how he had got where he was . |
| 33 | Next Wednesday , 11 women who made it to the top will speak on success and motivation for women at Women Who Win , a major conference at London 's Institute of Directors ( for details ring 071 839 1233 ) . |
| 34 | In reality Goldie is a shrewd operator who is proud to have made it to the top on her own merits . |
| 35 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 36 | Characters who make it to the top of the hill see a brilliant flash of sunlight , experience momentarily the scent of a summer day abundant with wild flowers and the taste of sweet wine and nectar- and then find themselves standing in a corridor , with their backs to the west wall , opposite the door to the scribe 's room ( location 59 ) . |
| 37 | The most frequent trigger to that crisis was career blockage , the realization that they , with the vast majority , would not make it to the top . |
| 38 | You must have that " something extra " — not just to make it to the top but to get employed in the first place . |
| 39 | However , if the marble has enough energy to take it to the top of the hump then it will , of course , roll down the other side . |
| 40 | It 's still rare to find women artists making it to the top . |
| 41 | She knew how Sisyphus must have felt , rolling that stone wearily up the hill , only to see it slide back down again as he made it to the top . |
| 42 | He 's a nice boy , ’ she said tolerantly , and a shade absurdly in view of the fact that she was perhaps two years his senior , ‘ but somehow I do n't see him making it to the top . |
| 43 | He tips the giant striker to make it to the top . |
| 44 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 45 | climbing the white horses takes anything from three to five hours … routes up cliffs or pitches as they 're called are well mapped out in the mountain guides … and our team have made made it to the top in good time … |
| 46 | Few make it to the top . |
| 47 | He then says that Caesar does n't seem to let his emotions speak more than his reason , but ( this is the next six or seven lines ) when ambitious young people are starting out , at the bottom of the heap , they are humble and look up with awe , but once they have made it to the top , they scorn all those below them , who have helped them to get there . |
| 48 | He took the flare from its bracket and laid it on the top of the trap-door . |
| 49 | The object is for players , taking it in turns , to remove one of the pieces and place it on the top without the whole structure collapsing . |
| 50 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |
| 51 | She tipped the rice into a pan and put it on the top on a low number and retreated to the living room where Alan was sprawled on the sofa reading the copy of a Sunday newspaper they had collected from a garage shop next to the pub . |
| 52 | There , in that picture ’ — Myeloski took a photograph from the pile and put it on the top — ‘ they came along that river-bank . |
| 53 | He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’ |
| 54 | pin it on the top as well . |
| 55 | Okay , and you 've done , you 've done that on one bit of the fraction , so you must do it on the top as well . |
| 56 | just floated it on the top , not down the bottom . |
| 57 | ah , I 've put you a three eight , wide eight thick piece of steel lay it on the top that would hold it down in the middle |
| 58 | so I put it on the top of there , every time anybody went by they knocked it off ! |
| 59 | and just tie it on the top . |
| 60 | display it on the top she saved on wrapping papers and the bows want to get some petrol , have to get some get some what did you ask in Guilford to what , why you asked for B H S about ? |