Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] from the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long black hair tumbled from the top of the boy 's head . |
| 2 | A weeping standard rose — a rambler growing from the top of a single stem — is especially beautiful when draped over a shaped top support , as here . |
| 3 | When light coming from the top of a tall building is examined very carefully at ground level , its colour is found to be bluer than normal — another effect of gravity . |
| 4 | Light : Very good light required from the top . |
| 5 | the height of the type measured from the top of the tallest ascender to the bottom of the lowest descender . |
| 6 | Best looking boy starting from the top . |
| 7 | UNFINISHED Canary Wharf , at 50 stories the tallest office block in London , is to be a new tourist attraction with a £3 charge to view from the top . |
| 8 | A blackened pipe stood up out of the deck , just aft of the deckhouse on the port side , a heat haze dancing from the top of it and the ice on the metal supporting bracket dripping moisture . |
| 9 | A bright yellow mantle starts from the top of the head and broadens as it stretches across the body , extending into the tail . |
| 10 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " She 's over here , " a voice shouted from the top of the cliff . |
| 13 | A pipe leading from the top of the cylinder or tank then takes the hot water to the rest of the house . |
| 14 | Suddenly a voice bellowed from the top of the alleyway . |
| 15 | The first major thing I did was to have a road laid from the top , rather a long way . |
| 16 | sought to prevent communication , but in fact was purely because the news was always the same and there was much more identity of message coming from the top . |
| 17 | His words illustrate the growing disarray of the economy , caught between workers venting long-suppressed grievances and vague blueprints for change issued from the top . |
| 18 | Imagine yourself centred along a straight line running from the top of your head to your feet . |
| 19 | ’ I should watch the Black Magic if I were you , Miss Lightbody , ’ I joked , noticing the familiar colouring of the box peeping from the top of one of her carrier bags . |
| 20 | Montpelier was stone-built with a wooden tower projecting from the top . |
| 21 | In flailing the growth comes from the top and bottom becomes gappy but in coppicing the hedge is cut from the bottom which encourages growth . |
| 22 | Although Molins ' aim is to capture the ‘ small — and often unacknowledged — details of life ’ , her eye ranges from broad vistas noting the peculiar effect of a lamp-post Lurching up into the sky or of a statue gesticulating from the top of a building , to close-up studies of various corners of interiors . |
| 23 | Andy wore cords , shirt and jumper and body-warmer ; a cap hung from the top of one of the nearby posts . |
| 24 | Likewise in ( 84 ) one can not hear a tune " come " from somewhere ( cf. the strangeness of * I heard the tune come from the top of the hill ) : its source of emission can only be identified by a process of deduction which interprets what is directly observed in order to arrive at the conclusion that the sound is coming from such-and-such a point . |
| 25 | Increase ventilation by lowering two way zips from the top . |
| 26 | The moon sailed free of the cloud and lit the heather more brightly , but neither Hazel nor Fiver moved from the top of the bank . |
| 27 | A plant growing from the top of a dry wall . |
| 28 | On the British side the restricted nature of the Shakespeare Cliff site has produced a variety of access arrangements : workers descent to the tunnels through a shaft sunk from the top of the cliff while spoil is removed using a conveyor system sited in the inclined adit constructed during the 1970s . |
| 29 | We stayed a couple of nights in London , in a small hotel situated in the street extending from the top of St Martin 's Lane . |