Example sentences of "on the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Doran 's was a Victoria sponge with toasted almonds and walnut halves carefully arranged on the top . |
| 2 | Mrs Venables ' cake was — as she had said — a perfect coffee gâteau , smoothly frosted in caramel , with three cherries on the top . |
| 3 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 4 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 5 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 6 | I 'm sure they 're the sort that drop sticky stuff on the top of the car . ’ |
| 7 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 8 | As we sat on the top , recovering from the steep walk and admiring the view down into the valley and out to the plains beyond , the boys produced a rather crushed packet of cigarettes and all four of them puffed away merrily . |
| 9 | The only control on the single speed machine is the on/off rocker switch mounted on the top of the machine , towards the front of the green plastic casing . |
| 10 | It tasted good , but the only resemblance to tea was in the tealeaves floating on the top of the liquid . |
| 11 | There is still snow on the top of Ben Nevis . |
| 12 | The 76 was a fascinating package of new ideas from the winkle-picker nose to the biplane rear wing and with an electro-hydraulic clutch in between which the driver operated by depressing a small button on the top of the gear lever . |
| 13 | On the top was printed : Jolyon Vigo , B.D.S. , L.D.S. , R.C.S. , Eng. , Dent . |
| 14 | In some churches carved heads are similarly found perched on the top of pillars , often biting into them . |
| 15 | Phil looked at him with bulging horror and searched around the metallic ward for some wood to touch , drumming his fingers at last in relief on the top of the locker . |
| 16 | Patrick began by blunt cutting the ends then , after blow-drying , he pulled the hair into a high ponytail which he lightly backcombed before splaying it out on the top of the head . |
| 17 | As Harvey Wilson , says , ‘ Nobody puts their name to a business they 're not proud of and , by the same token , it gives the customer confidence to know that somebody is accountable at the end of the day … that they are dealing with a company that is owned and run by the people whose names appear on the top of letterhead . ’ |
| 18 | It is built of stone , and there is a little cupola with Gothic trimmings on the top . |
| 19 | The ingenious products singled out by this year 's Queen 's Awards for Export Achievement included : pop-up greeting cards , a flushable colostomy bag , and a device for putting the froth on the top of canned Guinness . |
| 20 | On the top of a steep rocky hill there appeared to be a fortress , with every window lit . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher . |
| 22 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 23 | Gloria put on her stockings , one coupon each , two for the pair and always kept for best , straightened the seams up the back , Vase lined her eyebrows , and put on her suede peeptoe shoes and her little black hat with the veil which usually lived in one of the paper carrier bags on the top of the shelf . |
| 24 | The wobbling teacup on the top fell first , the rest followed . |
| 25 | They 'd issued one for Baby too , a gas-bag like a cradle , with a port-hole on the top . |
| 26 | For ‘ I wish you on the top of Brocken ’ is a common curse … ‘ |
| 27 | He turned to Marie , who was sitting on the top of the bank , just above him . |
| 28 | But certain words , like certain tunes , have a way of floating on the top of the mind , ready to jet out of the smallest leak in the sensibility . |
| 29 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 30 | In Islington 's famous Union Chapel , for example , the doors which opened into the auditorium had fixed to the wall beside them small boxes with a slit on the top ; these were for worshippers ' donations . |