Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] at 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It was fitted into an antelope-horn hilt carved at the top with the Beast 's head .
6 A head with dose-cropped hair appeared at the top of the stairs and seeing Martin , smiled .
7 But luckily there was only a c only one car stopped at the top .
8 A young lady appeared at the top of the stairs .
9 But the state of financial disorder starts at the top , in a federal government that continues to assert its rights to print money to pay its bills .
10 In most cases the ileoanal anastomosis lies at the top of the anal columns and hence the anal transition zone is retained ; however , in patients with polyposis we usually perform a mucosectomy and a sutured anastomosis at the denate line .
11 Well I suppose most corruption starts at the top does n't it ?
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