Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 2 | Swear when he was sat at the top of the stairs shivering he looked so thin . |
| 3 | When she arrived at the Red House , a large Citroën was parked at the top of the short drive . |
| 4 | The ‘ organ of benevolence ’ was located at the top of the forehead . |
| 5 | Such pictures she always found calming to her nerves and she had no need of the large net which was hung at the top of the staircase , to catch those distracted adolescents who attempted suicide in the converted country house where she received her education . |
| 6 | A deep central window was arched at the top . |
| 7 | A roundabout was built at the top of Anerley Hill to provide a run-round loop and was said to be located partly in five different boroughs . |
| 8 | The curved members were made up from 2 pieces of 5x2 in. sawn roughly to shape and joined by double mortice and tenon , as was used at the top to join the curved members and the centre glazing bar . |
| 9 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 10 | A car park was provided at the top of the property . |
| 11 | In January 1985 , before he was supplanted at the top by Lendl , the New Yorker defeated the stern Czechoslovak in straight sets in the Masters final . |
| 12 | He was also critical of the way F1 was run at the top . |
| 13 | Er if you fully fund a TESSA at nine thousand , we 'd estimate around eleven to twelve thousand back , and not the sixteen thousand that was projected at the top of the cycle about three years ago . |
| 14 | These reforms created a service which was controlled at the top but left some regional autonomy in relation to the allocation of funding and service organisation ( see Klein , 1989 ) . |