Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the top of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mother , for all I care , she can abseil off the top of Harrods if that 's her pleasure . |
| 2 | ‘ Hmm — where 's Azor , by the way ? ’ she asked off the top of her head . |
| 3 | I ca n't think off the top of my head |
| 4 | They want to know what ‘ Cool As F— ’ means when they 're just things that have come off the top of your head and you 've stuck on a T-shirt . ’ |
| 5 | The cast on , or hip measurement , must of course , be the same figure as that which you used for the top of your skirt program . |
| 6 | That 's the sort of colour you want for the top of your is n't it ? |
| 7 | He extended the midsummer sunrise line in both directions to pass through the top of Sidbury Hill to the north-east , and touch the earthworks of Grovely Castle and Castle Ditches in the other direction . |
| 8 | She strides out , her bags banging against the top of her hip . |
| 9 | Her head went down sharply , cracking against the top of the wall , stunning her . |
| 10 | Reinforced fencing has also had to be installed along the top of the cliff face to try and reduce the danger of people committing suicide by jumping off the top . |
| 11 | Inkwells were let into the top of the desks and each Friday afternoon the ink monitors from Standard Seven would arrive with trays , collect these inkwells , take them into the lobby and refill them with very watery ink from a small water can . |
| 12 | Leave to dry , then press into the top of the cake . |
| 13 | I love it when they put their hand right there and you can feel their fingers in your hair and pressing into the top of the back of your neck . |
| 14 | I 'm up here on the … no , it 's not a stage , it 's a swimming pool , and I 'm walking along the top of it . |
| 15 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 16 | We have two wonderful prizes of bedroom furniture to be won from the top of Ducal 's range . |
| 17 | Although they moved stealthily on Devraux 's instructions , great flocks of black parrots rose from the tops of the trees as they passed below , darkening the sky and filling the air with the sustained applause of their flapping wings . |
| 18 | Stones dropped from the top of the mast of a uniformly moving ship fell to the deck at the foot of the mast and not some distance from the mast , as Aristotle 's theory predicted . |
| 19 | If a stone is dropped from the top of a tower erected on the moving earth , it will execute its natural motion and fall towards the centre of the earth . |
| 20 | It was like being in an elevator which suddenly drops from the top of a twenty storey building to the basement . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't forget you know who , ’ Billy shouted from the top of the hatch ladder as Yanto and the seaman disappeared through a door at the rear of the bridge . |
| 22 | " She 's over here , " a voice shouted from the top of the cliff . |
| 23 | A bright yellow mantle starts from the top of the head and broadens as it stretches across the body , extending into the tail . |
| 24 | : Fa A man had to be rescued from the top of Hereford Cathedral this afternoon after he had a heart attack . |
| 25 | Leicester 19pts Northampton 22 NORTHAMPTON , boosted by 14 points from outside-half John Steele , moved to the top of Courage League One last night after the narrowest of victories in a splendid contest at Welford Road . |
| 26 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 27 | Brannen moved to the top of the UK rankings for 1991 with 7,656 points and earned selection for the World Championships in Tokyo . |
| 28 | " Suppose I were to break the bones in my wings , and then fly to the top of the mountain and back . |
| 29 | In the winter , snow or , more usually , hail can fall on the tops of the highest mountains and yet one hour 's drive down in Funchal people are swimming and sunbathing . |
| 30 | The ground was soft and squelchy when she got out of the car , and she felt mud oozing over the top of her shoes . |