Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade . |
| 2 | Well I 've never had the experience and I do n't think my family have , I er no I should n't think it was really , they might , I suppose somebody , they used to have a reputation at one time these chemists was doing minor , giving you something for some minor ailment , but I would n't care to sort of er , I 'd never think of it , no there were quite a lot of doctors about you know , there was er Doctor at the top of Road and there was Doctor , Doctor oh there was a lot of doctors about . |
| 3 | There is an elegant staircase with a gate to keep the dogs downstairs and a page 's seat at the top of the stairs , where the boy sat until called to his duties . |
| 4 | The steps taken to field a team who would maintain the Premier Division side 's place at the top of Group A in the European Champions League were costly only in terms of the gamble that |
| 5 | It was Jack Clayton , a director trained in the traditional film industry , who persuaded Romulus Films to finance a version of John Braine 's Room at the Top , a representative sample of the disillusioned provincial novel . |
| 6 | Angus Wilson 's Hemlock and After ( 1952 ) , John Wain 's Hurry On Down ( 1953 ) , Kingsley Amis 's Lucky Jim ( 1954 ) , Iris Murdoch 's Under the Net ( 1954 ) , John Braine 's Room at the Top ( 1957 ) , Alan Sillitoe 's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1958 ) , and David Storey 's This Sporting Life ( 1960 ) are all first novels in which a lone male protagonist tries to find a means of accommodating himself to a society whose main institutions he views with suspicion . |
| 7 | When he stormed in the door it was as if a gale of wind was behind him , and he shouted his wife 's name at the top of his voice . |
| 8 | Then list the rest of the cast below but put Therese 's name at the top , same size lettering as Alfred 's . |
| 9 | Postelnicu 's life at the top was a sorry story of petty venality . |
| 10 | Now I 'm going to help you with it and what I suggest we do this morning when I give you these sheets will you please write your name and today 's date at the top of the sheet and I put the date on the board , and then can you please resist the temptation to start , start writing over the rest of the sheet until I 've gone through it with you . |
| 11 | Nice thought to give honourary life membership for former chairman Michael Hill and that elder statesman of the Press-box , Eric Hill , once Fimblett 's partner at the top of the order . |
| 12 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |
| 13 | FROM ME TO YOU Boss Kevin Keegan salutes the Magpie fans after his side kept up their 100 per cent record at the top of the First Division |