Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the top " in BNC.

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1 The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks .
2 Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore .
3 Key good so we 'll put that right up at the top .
4 ‘ Rotherham are right up at the top of the table and they are there on merit .
5 Oh you should n't do it right up at the top .
6 He was also still considerably lighter , although as he rolled his sleeves right up to the top of his arms , Ellie for the first time was aware of the amount of muscle he seemed to have gained .
7 He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world .
8 er , and if you , not quite as short as you did last time , you see when you combed it up last time it was right up to the top just a little bit
9 Your going right up to the top are n't you ?
10 Yeah , but there ca n't be there ca n't be enough o , enough erm te ten thousands and this has to go right up to the top .
11 Oh one 's gone right up to the top of the
12 The sloop apparently ran straight on to the top of the bank under sail in spite of the fact that the top of the bank is 10 m ( 30 ft ) above the level of high spring tides.Jutson ( 1939 ) has pointed to a series of generally narrow platforms cut mainly in almost horizontal rocks in New South Wales and extending up to a height of 10 m ( 30 ft ) or more .
13 Leaning the broomstick against the signpost , she grasped the handle and climbed carefully on to the top of the twigs and raised her head towards the words on the signpost arm .
14 I was practically up at the top as well , I was really pissed off , just sitting there for like , for two hours , whilst my dad went all the way down to the bottom of this thing .
15 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 .
16 Your pistons are aluminium because you want a light weight because it going up and down , and if it 's very heavy when th the connecting rod wants to pull it back down again it will want to carry on straight out through the top of the cylinder head .
17 He walked straight back round the top of the little dale until they came down the slope to the road , well out of sight of the cottage .
18 I went right back to the top of the Wainui hill , but there was no trace of the pannier .
19 First , decide how far down from the top of the aquarium you wish to position the strengtheners to accommodate any desired equipment inside the top .
20 His lips were drawn back and his eyes flashed as one fist smashed hard on to the top of the snow-covered wall .
21 And a blazing-hot drop of wetness fell precisely on to the top of my head , and began to sear its way down into my hairpiece .
22 It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations .
23 As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head .
24 Pin the tape to the curtain over the heading allowance , fractionally down from the top of the curtain ( fig. 29 ) .
25 She came to a little patch of sand , the bottom of a miniature canyon , and on the far side of it there was a smooth grey rock , sliced neatly off at the top to make a platform .
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