Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 2 | A favoured hypothesis is that the persistence of a large body of magma allows it to become vertically stratified with the more viscous and gas-rich component accumulating towards the top ( Fig. 5.16 ) . |
| 3 | Remember ill-focused jiggle-rock with pretend funk basslines and some git grunting over the top ? |
| 4 | In a bid to regain his machine the unemployed roofer climbed to the top of a building , ripped off tiles and threw them into the street , it was alleged . |
| 5 | The main screen is simply a list of the letters , with a description of each one 's contents , and a rather primitive menu running across the top . |
| 6 | Just six minutes away is the beautiful picturesque old village of Altea where a lovely old church stands on the top of a hill . |
| 7 | Montpelier was stone-built with a wooden tower projecting from the top . |
| 8 | Firstly , the ore was hand picked over to take out " deads " ( that is , any rock that bore no ore whatsoever ) ; then it was crushed by hand or by machines to a workable size ; then last of all it was washed on racks that shook heavy ore to the bottom while the lighter spar came to the top and was washed or scraped away . |
| 9 | Also hold the inward creases of the pleat to the back of the heading with a few hand stitches at the top of the pleat . |
| 10 | ‘ I really do n't think this film goes over the top in any way . |
| 11 | Above them , the tiny figure crawling along the top of a pipe stopped for a moment , and then continued . |
| 12 | As the male queen butterfly hovers in courtship , a delicate brush appears at the top of his abdomen and sprinkles the female with perfumed scales . |
| 13 | Imagine yourself centred along a straight line running from the top of your head to your feet . |
| 14 | And they were then there was an electric cable coming from the top with two clips in the top and this cable came right down into the into the balcony door . |
| 15 | A patch of dried blood showed on the top where it lay splayed out , and the sight was so pitiful that one of the children began to cry . |
| 16 | She wiped herself , tossed the paper into the pan , lifted the little button-shaped plunger on the top of the tank . |
| 17 | Best looking boy starting from the top . |
| 18 | Jan describes her installations as magical spaces with sensory delight … ‘ dens to hide in , spaces to explore , wall hangings and seed-pods of natural wonder pouring from the tops of branches . |
| 19 | Serve well chilled in glasses , or in one large bowl , with a layer of thin pouring cream floated on the top , and with sponge or shortbread fingers . |
| 20 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
| 21 | We watched white cloud pouring over the tops and then ‘ melting ’ as it reached the valley floor . |
| 22 | Descent : Either walk left across the top of the quarry f aces to take the descending incline of the approach or find an in situ abseil bolt roughly in the centre of the wall . |
| 23 | The ensuing problems for a reforming commissioner begin at the top , with the Scotland Yard policy committee — the deputy , assistant and deputy assistant commissioners , by whom all major changes have , effectively , to be ratified . |
| 24 | It was fitted into an antelope-horn hilt carved at the top with the Beast 's head . |
| 25 | A head with dose-cropped hair appeared at the top of the stairs and seeing Martin , smiled . |
| 26 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 27 | Light : Very good light required from the top . |
| 28 | At that time it was a tradition that when someone in a family died there was always a bow of black ribbon draped over the top of their photograph frame . |
| 29 | Part of the bank here was in the shape of a sea wall , with a miniature promenade running along the top . |
| 30 | From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain , Pico do Arieiro , at 1,818m . |