Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 2 | They made camp at the top of a bank by a fallen tree . |
| 3 | In himself , Couples has the potential to displace Borg at the top of the pyramid of Great Baffled Victims of Success . |
| 4 | To cap it all , cable-car access from the other side would guarantee tea at the top and a tourist audience — what more was needed ? |
| 5 | Miss Fran Bennett , the group 's director , said the report showed the ‘ scale of deprivation among claimants ’ and challenged the main political parties to put tackling poverty at the top of their agendas . |
| 6 | Will I need room at the top and bottom of the stairs ? |
| 7 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 8 | He needed somewhere to store the various artefacts he 'd collected on his travelsand decided to build a gothic tower complete with mullioned arched and trefoil windows … crenellated battlements at the top and even a gargoyle to complete the effect . |
| 9 | In the morning the two sides shared the four Foursomes matches but therein hides a tale of powerful enough to displace Neighbours at the top of the TV ratings . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to go now , ’ shouted Danny at the top of his voice . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In a world in which voters place health at the top of their concerns , the UK is still only spending just over 6% compared with 7% plus by Belgium , Finland , Ireland , Italy , Luxembourg , New Zealand , Norway , and Switzerland ; 8% plus by Australia , Austria , France , Germany , Iceland , Netherlands , and Sweden ; 9% plus by Canada ; and dear old USA on its own in the stratosphere with 12% plus . |
| 13 | This has forced other manufacturers to follow suit as the latest market research confirms that customers now put safety at the top of their list of desirable features in a car . |
| 14 | never , never ever put meat at the top |
| 15 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 16 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 17 | Bath are now title favourites ; they won 21–13 at Rosslyn Park to replace Northampton at the top . |
| 18 | Well it says Leslie at the top . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You can still use foam at the top and bottom . |
| 21 | The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government . |
| 22 | Some of the most highly motivated individuals ( in a career sense ) begin life at the top of the working class and energize themselves into the middle classes . |
| 23 | Drop-leaf tables which could be placed against the wall when not in use developed during the pre-Commonwealth period , but the method of framed ‘ joined ’ construction necessitated the use of a securing pivot at the top and the bottom of the swing-out supporting leg . |
| 24 | Technology concentrates power at the top . |
| 25 | Davis beats Drago to draw level at the top |
| 26 | The National Union of Teachers has begun a two hundred thousand pound campaign to put education at the top of the General Election agenda . |
| 27 | Bureaus , as Downs points out , are oligarchic in nature , with power , income and prestige reinforcing the authority of officials holding positions at the top of the hierarchy ( Downs 1967 , p. 58 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ He was n't a burglar , ’ I said , joining Nassim at the top of the stairs . |
| 29 | No , so we should be age thirty four , and it should have non-smoker at the top , so it 's right at the front , the commonest mistake is to look up smokers in non-smokers , and non-smokers in smokers . |
| 30 | Meanwhile Aussie coach John Dorahy will stick to the best of British to keep Wigan at the top of the Rugby League world . |