Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | But luckily there was only a c only one car stopped at the top . |
| 2 | The LTQ training programme began at the top of the organization and ‘ cascaded ’ downwards with each manager training his or her immediate subordinates in the process . |
| 3 | A young lady appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 4 | His wife appeared at the top of the stairs wearing a dressing-gown of many colours . |
| 5 | In the intervening years , whatever the feelings were " in some quarters " , co-operation flourished at the top . |
| 6 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 7 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 8 | A head with dose-cropped hair appeared at the top of the stairs and seeing Martin , smiled . |
| 9 | And the pressure remained at the top : no access to the old boys ' clubs or men 's rooms for deal-making , and the constant reminder that ‘ if a man fails it 's because he 's inadequate , but if a female does it 's because of her sex . ’ |
| 10 | The sailor stood at the top of the mast , high above the Captain . |
| 11 | This was because the Bratianu dynasty flourished at the top of an increasingly Westernized society , whose new value it symbolized . |
| 12 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |