Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's maybe a little sixteenth note at the top of five or six ledger lines and the text says ‘ feedback ’ — like I really need to know that ! |
| 2 | Telford watched nervously as the team of workmen drifted towards the second pump at the top of the rise . |
| 3 | From the very first entry at the top of the list it is clear that this discussion was to be for Darwin revelatory . |
| 4 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 5 | Fielding maintained that Lorne was all fucked out " , having gorged himself to the point of decrepitude during his first decade at the top , a common enough syndrome in the movie business . |
| 6 | Place the cursor on the first character of the first word at the top of the column to be moved ( eg the G of GENERAL in Task 23 below ) |
| 7 | It may not be the first thing at the top of our minds when we 're , when we 're checking the thing but I think it ought to be checked for that . |
| 8 | This was done by first starting at the top of the list with Allied Lyons and working down the list . |
| 9 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 10 | Start a third page at the top of the third paragraph by moving the page break upwards |
| 11 | AS Whitney Houston celebrates her third week at the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic , another singer is rubbing her hands with glee . |
| 12 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |