Example sentences of "he [vb past] at the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | The veins standing out on his neck , he shouted at the top of his voice : ‘ We 're going to crucify this stuff . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Looking up he saw at the top of it a bizarre collection of wheels and cogs . |
| 4 | The gold of summer faded off Gabriel 's skin , grew down to the tips of his hair , and on days when the wind blew , he shivered at the top of his ladder like a flag at a mast-head , his long shirt billowing full of cold air . |
| 5 | He wrote at the top of his list ‘ Buteo ’ with a question mark . |
| 6 | Later he paused at the top of the shorter flight of steps until he was sure it was safe to pass the Bogeyman 's door , then tip-toed along the corridor to his room . |
| 7 | He sat at the top of the stairs as the news sank in . |
| 8 | He pointed at the top of his basket . |
| 9 | He stood at the top of a long flight of wide stone steps . |
| 10 | He stood at the top of the stairs , looking back at Hilary — chunky , lively , absorbed — and at his paintings . |
| 11 | The mythic figure of the General — as portrayed in the War Memoirs — had known , from the moment he stood at the top of the Champs Elysées on 26 August 1944 , that the new leaders whom the war had brought to power would betray the cause of national renewal . |