Example sentences of "[adv prt] on top " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 2 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 3 | Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain . |
| 4 | The only hazards , in fact , lay in the presence of pockets of scalding water , and in the possibility of a newly-formed pillow becoming detached from the steep flow front and rolling down on top of them . |
| 5 | He broke his neck by throwing himself down on top of the reactor . ’ |
| 6 | The normal angle of attack for a driver is level with the ball at impact below , but a topped shot is a steep swing down on top of the ball ( bottom ) . |
| 7 | He then turned himself into an enormous DRAGON and settled down on top of the cache . |
| 8 | The remaining fighters , which were down for maintenance and could not be made airworthy in time , were wrecked when a hangar door blew down on top of them . |
| 9 | Brush the remaining 4 squares with oil and place oiled side down on top of salmon . |
| 10 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 11 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 12 | The beehive-shaped stacks of cut bracken , sometimes held down on top with an old tyre , thrown like a successful quoit around their axial poles , are a great feature of the valleys . |
| 13 | Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday . |
| 14 | There they gently laid it down on top of the so-centimetre mark at the middle of the tape measure . |
| 15 | Cora-Beth 's foot had slipped between two of the bales and she had tumbled backwards , dragging Harry down on top of her . |
| 16 | He slammed the milk bottle down on top of the bedside cabinet , pulling the drawer open . |
| 17 | In answer she pulled him down on top of her . |
| 18 | It would n't improve my chances of pleasing the God-King if more ceptors phased out at the wrong moment so that the ship set down on top of something valuable — like the royal palace , the Divine Sanctum . |
| 19 | She leapt towards him and , seizing the plate of biscuits , brought it down on top of her head until it shattered , and fell onto her arms . |
| 20 | But he then had to get across the gully and connect up the wires to brin' this lot down on top of us . ’ |
| 21 | Then he moved , brushing past Ward , and at that moment Iris Sunderby reached out , seizing me by the shoulder and letting out a scream as she fell to the ground , pulling me down on top of her . |
| 22 | She put the bowl down on top of a chest of drawers standing next to the bed and folded her arms . |
| 23 | Then , without previous movement or sound , only with a sudden gush of closed and graveyard air , the rotten surface above buckled and dimpled , lolling in sagging bubbles of turf , and sending its under-levels of soil cascading down on top of the ancient arc of bricks that upheld it . |
| 24 | ‘ Saunders came down on top of him . |
| 25 | She wound her arms around his neck , eagerly accepting his heated kisses until he lifted her on to the bed and came down on top of her , covering her and dominating her . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh — do n't tell me , I do n't want to know , ’ Emmie cried passionately , flinging herself down on top of William who suffered her patiently for a moment and then got up , shook himself and moved away . |
| 27 | Dressed only in bra and panties , she had flopped down on top of the covers , trying to woo sleep . |
| 28 | He crawled on his hands and knees to his quilt and slumped down on top of it , breathing heavily and filling the darkness with the reek of beer . |
| 29 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 30 | I put the file down on top of my coffee table . |