Example sentences of "[vb past] at the top of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dreamed , each time , of his plantation in Jamaica — banana palms leafed like green fountains , bright orange papaws clustered at the top of their naked stems , a noise of surf quickened the air with its rustling freshness . |
| 2 | Clustered at the top of the mast , the insects became immobile . |
| 3 | The Wellenkuppe summit , a white notch against a blue sky , was only five minutes away up an easy snow slope , but almost everyone stopped at the top of the rock pitch for a second breakfast . |
| 4 | They stopped at the top of the hill and sat down . |
| 5 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 6 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 7 | As he put her back on her feet , George threw back his head and shouted at the top of his voice — ‘ Ya — ha ! |
| 8 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 9 | The veins standing out on his neck , he shouted at the top of his voice : ‘ We 're going to crucify this stuff . |
| 10 | She pounded on the door , shouted at the top of her voice , and yelled threats at Julius . |
| 11 | He was too far away to hear , even if she shouted at the top of her voice . |
| 12 | Right he then went to the pulpit and he said that he was gon na preach about Lazarus actually but he 's a quiet fellow and he shouted at the top of his voice I 'm speaking about satanic bondage ! |
| 13 | The Doctor did n't stop , but shouted at the top of his voice for all to hear : |
| 14 | ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor stood up , and shouted at the top of his voice . |
| 15 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 16 | The atmosphere of Darvel was well encapsulated in a verse of doggerel which Leslie added at the top of one of his letters : |
| 17 | This was because the Bratianu dynasty flourished at the top of an increasingly Westernized society , whose new value it symbolized . |
| 18 | She heard his low , troubled call , ‘ Clare ’ , as she turned at the top of the stairs . |
| 19 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 20 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She sniffed at the top of her dress , over her breasts . |
| 23 | Donald , who did n't like being so rudely woken up and then bumped about , yelled at the top of his voice . |
| 24 | She yelled at the top of her lungs , calling again and again until at last he heard her terrified screams . |
| 25 | I yelled at the top of my voice and Jean got such a fright she sent the Cortina swerving all over the road . |
| 26 | After a very bumpy ride they alighted at the top of Thorpe Street and the Irishman drove away . |
| 27 | The tax burden under this Government rose during our first two and a half years because we inherited at the top of the business cycle a borrowing requirement of 5.5 per cent . |
| 28 | The path was built to serve an observatory that functioned at the top of the Ben at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 30 | Mabel screamed at the top of her voice and the train stopped . |