Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvements currently being developed through TOP have a potential to reduce spending by between £1 million and £i.5 million . |
| 2 | Mark 's tipped for top |
| 3 | Gabriel took himself to the top of a steep grass slope and , lying full length in the grass , rolled from top to bottom , over and over and over , until he was soaking wet and extremely dizzy . |
| 4 | The overwhelming impression left after the debate is of a Tory Party spilt from top to toe over Europe , and a Prime Minister unable to heal the rift . |
| 5 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 6 | A spokeswoman for the Savoy Group said that anything a concierge earned on top of his basic salary was ‘ entirely his affair . |
| 7 | Although the Hauptdolomit was primarily located on top of the Z1 Anhydrite platform , it prograded basinwards to some extent and overlays the carbonate mudstones of the Stinkdolomit in some wells ( see Figs. 18 , 19 and 25 ) . |
| 8 | A conical party hat was now perched on top of the grey stubble , with the elastic stretched under my chin . |
| 9 | Langres , a fortress town enclosed by four kilometres of ancient ramparts and perched on top of a 100-metre-high plateau , some seventy-five kilometres north of Dijon and the Côte de Beaune , dominates the Marne valley . |
| 10 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 11 | Perched on top of the Central Criminal Court in London stands a golden statue . |
| 12 | There was an old wooden house perched on top of a small hill , and the featureless cabins were spread out across the property below . |
| 13 | They climbed up to the small tower that was perched on top of the terminal building . |
| 14 | Schaffhausen is dominated by the sixteenth-century Munol fortress , perched on top of a hillock and towering over half-timbered houses sleeping by the water . |
| 15 | This allowed it to veer off course quite readily unless the steering or correction stroke was timed to strike when the kayak was perched on top of the wave . |
| 16 | But on that day there was a new variety of fruit , a single example , perched on top of the pile . |
| 17 | It is perched on top of a rock just off the Normandy coast and is connected to the mainland by a causeway ( 435 ) . |
| 18 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 19 | Suddenly we come along and say he 's got to do it all over again with several stone more perched on top . |
| 20 | At 507x464x362mm and 40lbs weight , the DSP 's extension cab is relatively painless to cart around ; plus , it 's designed to have the combo sat on top of it . |
| 21 | bit more thickness than I hoped , er but if it 's sat on top of there and on top of what 's on . |
| 22 | CLENCHED on top of each other like building blocks , his hands are putting on a show of determination . |
| 23 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |
| 24 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 25 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 26 | The old type of gravity filter is rarely found nowadays , and most works use pressure filters containing beds of graded sand , coarse at the bottom and fine at the top , through which the water is pumped from top to bottom . |
| 27 | When Tuesby & Cooper published their catalogue there was already a considerable variety of ‘ finishes ’ available for coffin furniture : gilt copper , copper , bronze , brass , silver and ‘ white ’ ( tin-dipped stamped iron , though silver leaf was sometimes applied on top of the tin ) ; black ( more expensive than silver , being tin-dipped stamped iron painted with two or more coats of matt black paint ) ; and ‘ coloured ’ for children 's coffins ( tin-dipped stamped iron , painted with two or more coats of matt white with certain details highlighted with water-gilding ) . |
| 28 | Sealant does just that — it seals the wood surface , allowing polish to be applied on top , but this also requires regular maintenance . |
| 29 | The very ‘ solid ’ cabinet of the 103/4 is made largely of particle board but has an additional panel of computer-routed , grey-painted Medite applied on top of it to form a slightly proud baffle area . |
| 30 | The part of the barn sited on top of these areas thus became a loft raised above the threshing floor . |