Example sentences of "at the top [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many players automatically roll the wrists at the start of the backswing , with the club being laid at the top as a result . |
| 2 | Birkenhead St Mary 's extended their lead at the top as the nearest challengers Sutton and Aigburth lost . |
| 3 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 4 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 5 | They crossed the river on the permanent bridge , couched solidly well above the water level on great wooden pillars carved at the top into the heads and shoulders of semi-mythical sentries , some holding rifles . |
| 6 | Turn right at the top into Wing Sing Street , known as Egg Street . |
| 7 | If so , Jahangir Khan , his predecessor as champion , will stay at the top for the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | So he experienced society from the bottom up , before talent and determination made room at the top for him : ‘ That was a most valuable bit of education for which I shall always be grateful both to my bourgeois ancestry as well as to the regime , ’ he was to say later . |
| 9 | European banks could stay at the top for longer than their predecessors . |
| 10 | Her age and her resilience suggest that she will be around at the top for at least another Olympiad . |
| 11 | To be the best in the world and to be at the top for a long time . |
| 12 | I hope we can stay at the top for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 13 | I have around 15 more good years ahead of me , but I fail to see plenty of room at the top for women like me . |
| 14 | Pour in the warm mulberries , with just a little of their juice , reserving the rest for later , and leaving enough room at the top for a covering layer of bread slices . |
| 15 | That 's what you need like at the top for your er |
| 16 | No , I 've been waiting for them to get them cards in I ordered a couple of those cards with the lights at the top for Kieran to take home |
| 17 | And do n't forget to put your little squi little circle at the top for degrees , seventy two degrees . |
| 18 | Recently-released figures for visitor numbers to Italy 's monuments and galleries in 1991 show no change at the top on the previous year : the most visited free-entry attraction is still the Parco di Capodimonte , Naples ( 2.6 million visitors ) and the most visited paying venue is Pompeii ( 1.4 million ) . |
| 19 | A four-wheel-drive vehicle will be an essential , of course , and my husband can leave his car at the top on the main road when snow is forecast . |
| 20 | If the thing was so valuable , then the secrecy and the size of the fee were understandable And if how the Emissary lived was any indication of life at the top on Fraxilly , presumably the God-King did like to own things worth a planet 's ransom . |
| 21 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 22 | And all you can see is the red at the top on the other side cause the walls in the way . |
| 23 | The most basic bags have a curved flap at the top with a drawcord running around the circumference . |
| 24 | The mast combines a tapered fishing rod at the top with an aluminium tube that costs a fiver or so from a metals stockist . |
| 25 | The alcove to the left of the fireplace had a rounded arch at the top with three shelves , chock-a-block with crest china souvenirs , so much in fashion during the first quarter of this century . |
| 26 | Outside Sigarup and Kalchu started to unpack the lukals , slitting open the stitching at the top with a knife and tipping out the maize to dry in the sun before they stored it away in wooden chests and cylindrical clay grain vats . |
| 27 | It 'll also be very tight for promotion from the third to the second with three teams — Fylde , Exeter and Richmond — tied at the top with nine points . |
| 28 | The paper millionaires differ from another recently-published BusinessAge list of the wealthy which put Mr Raymond at the top with a personal fortune of £1.5 billion . |
| 29 | These are wrapped around the ball and fastened at the top with a collar through which passed a wire ring for suspension or to pass round the wrist . |
| 30 | WE 'RE giving you another chance to sample life at the top with Vernons Pools — an extra route to enter our five free contests themed on what it would be like to win the pools . |