Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] from [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Vicar then took the text for his sermon from the second lesson , ‘ God loveth a cheerful giver ’ , and was so carried away by his own rhetoric that he absent-mindedly helped himself to most of the grapes hanging down from the top of the pulpit . |
| 2 | It was all so sudden it made her feel queer ; affecting her stomach like looking down from the top of a cliff or riding on a Big Dipper . |
| 3 | They trod on this as they climbed ; looking back from the top , Carrie saw the marks of their rubber-soled shoes and felt guilty , though it was n't her fault . |
| 4 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 5 | PULLING DOWN FROM THE TOP |
| 6 | Turning out from the top of the thighs , bend both legs . |
| 7 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |
| 8 | As Roberto was coming down from the top of his back-swing , the spectators leaned forward on to the fencing causing a crack like thunder . |
| 9 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 10 | And then they had the adits coming down from the top . |
| 11 | And in the middle of that , they thought that perhaps an ornamental lighting column with sort of , with lights coming out from the top of it just to make it a bit more fancy . |
| 12 | So if you have a look at the idea of communication flowing down from the top of the structure lower down then w what 's that communication going to be including ? |
| 13 | Okay so directions , instructions , orders , flowing down from the top of the structure to the bottom of the structure and perhaps also some feedback as well . |
| 14 | I looked up then and saw the head of a wasp poking up from the top of a candle on the altar . |
| 15 | Al Phizacklea repeated Minotaur on the East Buttress of Scafell ( again abseiling in from the top to the start of the ice ) . |