Example sentences of "[prep] the very top " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 2 | In fact it 's one of the very top U. |
| 3 | These berries , plump and sweet , grew on the bushes near the very top of the mountain . |
| 4 | And then he let out a call of welcome and triumph and he turned round in his cage and , raising his wings , flew up and dashed his talons against the very top of his cage and , wheeling sideways , hit against the side of Minch 's cage as well so that the Cages were filled with the sound of his joy . |
| 5 | Therefore the role of the Young England Rugby Club is to enhance involvement in youth rugby by creating a direct link with the very top of the game , and that means the RFU and the England squad . |
| 6 | There is just a touch of yellow along the very top of the dorsal fin . |
| 7 | That uncomfortable conscience demands that somebody from the very top be indicted for the system as a whole . |
| 8 | Too late , from the very top of his eyes , he saw the prone body laying in the gutter begin to move , and the black muzzle of the gun only a matter of inches from his face . |
| 9 | From the very top of the pass take the path to Thirlmere ( 0.75 mile ) . |
| 10 | ‘ As you say , when these instructions arrive , you 'll find that they come from the very top . |
| 11 | The four chairlifts give access to some very pleasant intermediate pistes but the best skiing is offpiste from the very top , with a short climb onto a ridge , giving good long stretches of powder , all above the treeline . |
| 12 | Mr McCue had seen the ski jump being used and commented : ‘ I saw very few people actually ski from the very top of the ramp most of them start half way down . ’ |
| 13 | The smoke from the incinerator made Harry blink and cough , but Morpurgo , who was stooped over the very top of it , seemed unaffected and still he paid his visitor no heed . |
| 14 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |
| 15 | ‘ They say you should have gone to the very top in the army after the war but you were stopped . |
| 16 | And if we did n't get to the very top , well , it was near enough , was n't it ? |
| 17 | They were rising up , to the very top of the wheel . |
| 18 | He knew he should turn right into Longside Lane , then left down the long hill that was Shearbridge Road , then left again and up to the very top of Thorpe Street . |
| 19 | He hoisted the rope to the very top of the hill , leaped into space with his bare feet wedged against the big knot and soared like an eagle over the tree tops . |
| 20 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 21 | He may later fight his way to the very top of the hierarchy in a series of tactically staged combats . |
| 22 | Of the reasons why females so often fail to make it to the very top , two are basic : some of the best women managers do not achieve their full potential in business because they do not know how exceptional they are , and others fail to get a boardroom seat because they lack the confidence . |
| 23 | It has managed to fall flat on its ‘ face ’ after climbing to the very top of the glass and attaching itself to the underside of the small glass shelf that runs along the top , which , by the way , made it almost impossible to feed . |
| 24 | A quick cure for lazyitis , please , and then it 's back on the road to the very top . |
| 25 | Around them lay the litter of kit they had carried to the very top of the big old house ; to cabin 9 , their strange bare room . |
| 26 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 27 | Then he raised his wings and lifted himself up as Slorne had done to the very top of his cage . |
| 28 | Right to the very top . |
| 29 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 30 | LEEDS UNITED 'S charge to the very top of English football has cost them a cool £10 million . |