Example sentences of "[noun] from top to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the seat rails taper from top to bottom , as in the back of this chair , it is important to note on the plan whether the section is through the top or the bottom of the seat rail . |
| 2 | The exclusion of the lay influence from top to bottom had taken place before Innocent III 's time . |
| 3 | This group covers personal items used to protect the wearer from top to toe against specific hazards . |
| 4 | By the end of the afternoon she had replaced her wardrobe from top to tail , had acquired an evening dress that was out of this world , and had had her hair freshly washed and styled . |
| 5 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 6 | But John and Veronica Saunders still make time to decorate their home from top to toe . |
| 7 | We 'd been planning to completely redecorate our home from top to bottom , and at first I just could n't face doing it alone . |
| 8 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 9 | Not only did we double-glaze and fitted-Tintawn the whole place from top to bottom but I got my Dream Kitchen ! |
| 10 | ‘ Searchin' the place from top to bottom in the ‘ ope that there might ‘ ave been some grub to be found , but I could n't even find any communion wine . ’ |
| 11 | By dressing both the bride and the cake from top to bottom in virginal white , they created a wholly unintentional but blissful metaphor . |
| 12 | Turn the sides of the lining back and lockstitch ( page 33 ) lining to the wrong side of the curtain from top to bottom on all seams , and along the middle of each width ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 13 | Ruth wore Mrs Carson 's lavender cast-off with her one and only bonnet , and was therefore all the more pleased by Sean 's appreciative look as his glance took in her appearance from top to toe . |
| 14 | A quick encompassing movement of his light eyes absorbed every detail of her appearance from top to toe , before he stood back . |
| 15 | She wrapped the gown close around her body and wandered back into the living-room , moving around aimlessly , pausing in front of the enormous bookcase that virtually filled one large section of the room from top to bottom . |
| 16 | We were allowed out of Croatia without any trouble but the Slovenians searched the lorry from top to bottom for weapons before allowing us through . |
| 17 | Cut halfway through the stem from top to bottom , then rinse well with cold , running water until no grit remains . |
| 18 | The Sheen inquiry found that the ferry company was ‘ infected with sloppiness from top to bottom ’ . |
| 19 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 20 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 21 | There 's co-operation from top to bottom in all respects . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's fantastic when you think that a lot of people reckon this whole society 's evil from top to bottom , ’ says Jack . |
| 23 | She was soon back with a trolley and all the necessary requisites , and between them they washed the woman from top to toe , and dressed her in a white hospital gown . |
| 24 | Gabriel praised God from top to tail of his eiderdown , and glorified God 's servant Garvey who snored inside his own duck-down quilt , at the other end of the darkness . |
| 25 | What we really have to worry about , Cummins believes , is the ‘ Anglo conformity ’ that permeates the education hierarchy from top to bottom . |
| 26 | Fig. 1.12 Root marks on bone : Recent cow rib from Draycott , Somerset ; the cow died in 1977 and was excavated 8 years later , and the vegetation around the bone was exclusively nettles ( breadth of root impressions is approximately 300 microns ) ; the root marks are shown in three increasing magnifications from top to bottom : A ×12 ; B ×15 , C ×75 . |
| 27 | The four men had spent the night scouring their living-quarters from top to bottom . |
| 28 | They can just be people who believe they ought to reshape society from top to bottom . |
| 29 | The spectre of redundancy has been raised , and morale from top to bottom has become a cause for deep concern . |
| 30 | Kirov took only a few more minutes to search the small studio from top to bottom . |