Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the way they 're gathered in at the top , Sergeant . ’ |
| 3 | But then I 've got ta meet Emma and she stands up at the top . |
| 4 | At the fourth level analysis of fields of need is carried out at the top of the organization . |
| 5 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 6 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 7 | ‘ And what if you live on the ground floor and you look up at what 's going on at the top ? |
| 8 | Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ? |
| 9 | Hopefully Mansell will put the most famous name in racing back at the top of Formula One Grand Prix racing . |
| 10 | ‘ They know that if they lose this one , then a gap opens up at the top . |
| 11 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 12 | A detailed study of figure 1 will show that in the first three minutes after outbreak , the height of the flames grow approximately to the height of the ‘ level ’ of racking on which the fire started , by five minutes some four levels have been involved , and by seven minutes to eight minutes the flames will be breaking out at the top of the racking . |
| 13 | A few scribbled legal notes are crossed out at the top of the paper — and John was a solicitor 's clerk , after all . |
| 14 | It rises steadily to a height of almost 600 feet above the loch before levelling out at the top of a headland ; cars may be parked here and a short stroll reveals an extensive panorama of exquisite beauty without a discordant note . |
| 15 | Trade union leaders may well enter into " social contracts " with governments and pledge themselves and their members to wage restraint and productivity improvements in return for social benefits and an extension of trade union powers , but their control over their own members is limited and unofficial strikes can , and have , destroyed deals worked out at the top . |
| 16 | These circumstances are set out at the top of the Application Form . |
| 17 | Sean called out at the top of his lungs . |
| 18 | The orchard thinned out at the top of the slope where we had started to dig our slit trenches . |
| 19 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 20 | The raw materials that go in at the top are iron ore , limestone and What else goes in there ? |
| 21 | you go in at the top of |
| 22 | took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey . |
| 23 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 24 | They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society . |
| 25 | I might be starting at Crewe or Rochdale , but I might end up at the top . ’ |
| 26 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 27 | Marc was stamping about at the top of the steps , knocking the snow off his boots . |
| 28 | Yeah , the front just hinges off at the top . |
| 29 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 30 | Most people through that the four would join Rory Underwood and Simon Halliday and bow out at the top , having achieved the historic second Grand Slam . |