Example sentences of "[adv prt] at [art] top [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 2 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 3 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 4 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 5 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 6 | This is actually shown to be level with the sixth step , so if the man sensibly puts the load down at the top of the stairs then 100 joules is the answer . |
| 7 | The big Dalek Killer had seemed determined to bring the shuttle in at the top of the space station . |
| 8 | Although it might be a temptation to say hot air , because you do put hot air in , but it says goes in at the top of the furnace . |
| 9 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 10 | you go in at the top of |
| 11 | took over at the top of the second division after they Cleveland 2–0 with a goal in each half by Colin Howey . |
| 12 | And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself . |
| 13 | You can enter from the main road running along Teesdale but there is no way through at the top of the dale , unless you travel on horseback , or on foot , if you possess the stamina and know how to use a compass . |
| 14 | Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture . |
| 15 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
| 16 | They were still within the normal range of intelligence , however , and some babies born as much as 12 weeks early end up at the top of the class 10 years later , according to findings announced by Dr Leonora Harding , of Aberdeen University , to the British Psychological Society . |
| 17 | The fact that you are up at the top of a business hierarchy does not confer all-seeing wisdom . |
| 18 | Looking round for Blackberry , he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool , where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit . |
| 19 | We picked Yvonne up at the top of the slip by the RNLI shed where they sold stuff to help pay for the lifeboat . |
| 20 | The two directors looked up at the top of the Opera House . |
| 21 | Every night a vila — a wicked fairy who lived in the clouds and mist up at the top of the mountain-caused the whole hillside to tremble and heave so that the walls fell down , the stones fell apart , and all their work was to do again . |
| 22 | Is that what you did up at the top of the |
| 23 | She wondered what they were saying about her , up at the top of the house , as she undressed and laid her clothes out before sliding under the duvet in her underwear . |
| 24 | You want them up at the top of the sheet , where they 're going to be seen first ( they look that good ) . |
| 25 | KQ VI may be criticised as being too easy and not achieving anything new — forget that , it is good old fashioned family entertainment , and with now Kings Quest VI and Quest for Glory III Sierra are back up at the top of the pile ! |
| 26 | We had a playhouse , up at the top of the fields . |
| 27 | Up at the top of the city , the refuse trucks are nowhere in sight . |
| 28 | No no no no there was nobody , now er probably up at the top of Gallway there though one or two would have er stables I should think , one or two of those houses , but by and large no I should n't think so . |
| 29 | ‘ Rotherham are right up at the top of the table and they are there on merit . |
| 30 | The orchard thinned out at the top of the slope where we had started to dig our slit trenches . |