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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was fitted into an antelope-horn hilt carved at the top with the Beast 's head . |
| 5 | A head with dose-cropped hair appeared at the top of the stairs and seeing Martin , smiled . |
| 6 | A young lady appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |