Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused and regarded him over the top of her glass . |
| 2 | Then , as he simply smiled , she regarded him over the top of it . |
| 3 | Olazabal 's finish hauled him to the top of the European order of merit . |
| 4 | Adam watched him from the top of the bus . |
| 5 | Edward was much more confused than Maurice and needed all the help he was getting as Maurice manhandled him to the top of the ladder . |
| 6 | And it was not until Mrs Thackray 's tall , craggy fair-haired son had shouldered his luggage and led him to the top of St Jude 's Street that he had realized his peril . |
| 7 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 8 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 9 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 10 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 11 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 12 | A five minute rough walk in the moonlight took him to the top of the shingle ridge . |
| 13 | Malik 's brilliant form took him to the top of the table for the tour with a total of 1,184 runs . |
| 14 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 15 | She eyed him over the top . |