Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun prp] [prep] the top " in BNC.

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1 In so doing , he avenged a 16–13 defeat by Parrott at Preston a year ago and prevented the 28-year-old Liverpudlian from knocking Hendry off the top of the world rankings .
2 Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again .
3 This is n't the street , Sabina , ’ said Nunzia , coming in and kissing Caterina on the top of her head .
4 Kenny 's chasing Brian to the top
5 MIPS Technologies Inc refugee Chet Sylvestri , now over at Sun Microsystems Inc and responsible for putting Sparc over the top as an architecture , reckons a key step could be getting the otherwise anathema Windows NT operating system ported to the chip .
6 After the way Mark Robins has exposed Alex Ferguson 's lack of judgment by shooting Norwich to the top of the Premier League , the Old Trafford boss will never dare risk a repeat with Webb .
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