Example sentences of "[verb] go [prep] the top " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There is no definite plan … if you were going to , you would want to go at the top , and we are still growing . ’ |
2 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
3 | Select a strong healthy stem that has borne a good bloom , or is still carrying one that has gone over the top , and look at the stem lower down — to see if you can find nice plump axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils — these are latent growth buds , and they are going to become your new roses ! |
4 | ‘ He was seen going to the top of the tower . |
5 | He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’ |
6 | For days the team had sat out harrowing gales and -50C temperatures , waiting to go for the top . |
7 | Those men who finally could n't face going over the top from these trenches on the Somme , met with summary justice . |
8 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
9 | They could have gone over the top you know , I think , I 'm sure they could , I 'm certain they could . |
10 | Americans love to go over the top and now they have the perfect excuse . |
11 | You did you went from the top did go from the top |
12 | Snakes , locusts , bacteria and viruses are welcome to occupy their valuable niches in our world but they do go over the top on occasions . |
13 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
14 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
15 | ‘ So , you 've gone to the top , ’ Buckmaster commented as they turned on to the Okehampton road . |
16 | Like his father , Nicu Ceauşescu had gone to the top of the Communist Youth League at an early age . |
17 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
18 | All the snow had gone from the tops and the sun was really warm . |
19 | Thus rather than adopting the language of coercion and hence drawing parallels between corporate officials and , say , soldiers at the front in World War I compelled to go over the top at dawn to meet the German machine-gun bullets or be shot as ‘ deserters ’ , it might be more realistic to argue that corporate officials are frequently placed in a position where they are required to choose between impairing their career chances or being a loyal organizational person . |
20 | She 's gone over the top . |
21 | Favourite Silver Wizard ran too freely and Willie Carson said : ‘ He 's gone over the top . ’ |