Example sentences of "going [prep] the top [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
2 | ‘ He was seen going to the top of the tower . |
3 | This time a team from Gloucestershire are going to the top of the world . |
4 | yes , it 's already going to the top of the charts to be number one for Christmas all the other Christmas songs are |
5 | There 's nothing wrong with being optimistic , but Bulgarian sweeper Nicolai Iliev is surely going over the top with his prediction . |
6 | But in the last minute of the first half they gave away a penalty for going over the top at a ruck and Aled Williams , the Swansea outside-half , made no mistake from 20 yards to establish a 10–0 lead . |
7 | You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do . |
8 | Going over the top of our heads is well-rooted and par for the course . |
9 | 4 She retaliates by going over the top of her partner 's defence . |
10 | He 's on active service ; he smells powder ; he 's going over the top for the baby . |
11 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
12 | Those men who finally could n't face going over the top from these trenches on the Somme , met with summary justice . |