Example sentences of "going over the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
| 2 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 3 | ‘ Today I can have a drink like the next man without going over the top , ’ he wrote in his self-confessional biography , ‘ I suppose I have learned my lesson the hard way . ’ |
| 4 | Are the Americans going over the top again , or is this an indictment which we should place on trial ? |
| 5 | It 's funny but life seems infinitely sweeter ( you 're going over the top now ) ; anyway I thrive on challenges and this is the ultimate one . |
| 6 | This time balls did strike the walls , some going over the top , but no real damage was done . |
| 7 | Going over the top e.g. screaming at the kids over something minor |
| 8 | More than half of those questioned admitted to ‘ going over the top ’ when disciplining their children . |
| 9 | But she had to battle for a York neck victory from Satank and trainer Jack Berry said : ‘ She ran well , but looked to be going over the top . |
| 10 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 11 | Ruthless penalising of malingerers and also of sides going over the top has brought about a quiet revolution . |
| 12 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
| 13 | Going over the top of our heads is well-rooted and par for the course . |
| 14 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
| 15 | He 's on active service ; he smells powder ; he 's going over the top for the baby . |
| 16 | Remember , For Sale boards are subject to a maximum legal size , so make sure you do n't fall foul of the law by going over the top . |
| 17 | 4 She retaliates by going over the top of her partner 's defence . |
| 18 | Patriotism was all very well , but she felt this was going over the top . |
| 19 | Now then , is going over the top and spending more money and producing an absolutely stupendous job , fabulous result , is that quality ? |
| 20 | Yeah that 's a big and my and that stuck out the bucket like that , well going over the top we had a hood over the top tumbler to stop the flashing , so my father stopped , thinking that was a bit of wood and were gon na break the top of the tumbler , so he stop and out and scrubbed it and found that was this bone and I think if my memory serve me right that 's in the , the Fleet Museum now . |
| 21 | I realized that last night 's rice wine , followed by Doogie 's steak cooked in Glenfiddich and then more Glenfiddich , had left my cranial suspension system shot to pieces , but he was definitely going over the top . |
| 22 | It was supposed to be like going Over the Top , but it felt more like a gang of reluctant schoolboys setting out on a cross-country run with only the prospect of a quick smoke round the back of the bike sheds to sustain them . |
| 23 | There is a famous sequence of " Going over the top " in the First World War which has been shown to be a staged sequence . |
| 24 | I suppose it can be the same I think it 's just a bit more extreme like the characteristic he shows when he 's in female company like erm just like going over the top the way he acts |
| 25 | And Doherty , who worked tirelessly , might have done better with a John Easton cross , his header going over the top . |
| 26 | Those men who finally could n't face going over the top from these trenches on the Somme , met with summary justice . |
| 27 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | At ten fifty-five hours sharp Lance-Corporal Trumper stood trembling outside the colonel 's tent , almost as fearful of his commanding officer as of going over the top . |
| 29 | There 's nothing wrong with being optimistic , but Bulgarian sweeper Nicolai Iliev is surely going over the top with his prediction . |
| 30 | Then comes the news Blackadder , George and Baldrick are ‘ going over the top ’ in the morning . |