Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bear 's on top of the train grrr ! |
| 2 | Marco was on top of her . |
| 3 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |
| 4 | The key was on top of the frame where the lazy agent had left it , another Yale on a big paper tag . |
| 5 | The wash bowl , jug and soap dish were on top of the wash-stand , and the chamber pot discreetly underneath . |
| 6 | As far as chances went , Town were on top . |
| 7 | Town were on top in the second half and could have got something . |
| 8 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 9 | The Gideon 's Bible was on top of the wardrobe . |
| 10 | This devaluation was on top of the regular 1.8 per cent monthly " crawling devaluation " in place since October 1991 . |
| 11 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |
| 12 | Sell-out Mirror 's on top of the world |
| 13 | If the razor was on top of the heap , he would have been cut as soon as he touched it . |
| 14 | That does n't really grasp the point , but it sets Bernard off on another low-fi tirade against ‘ jump up and down bands ’ becoming part of the mainstream and generally bringing the whole world down : ‘ I could imagine Revolver being on Top Of The Pops , but I could n't imagine David Bowie being on , ’ he seethes , delicately . |
| 15 | Nothing happens and then the whole bloody thing is on top of you before you know it . |
| 16 | ‘ Was I the fool who let go of the rudder when the ship was on top of the rock there ? |
| 17 | that the authority must now find from its budget is on top of the £4 million shortfall and the 116-officer shortfall in an area with rising crime ? |
| 18 | The reduction is on top of the £68 million rates subsidy given at the beginning of the year , bringing a total cut of £100 million for 1993-94 . |
| 19 | It 's time by the minus one , which bit 's on top ? |
| 20 | The imaginary bit 's on top , so I 've got twenty four over six , two , five , divide by seven to go over six , two , five . |
| 21 | North is at top left . |
| 22 | Your dinner 's on top of the cooker . |
| 23 | The filler is on top of the box on a small square plate just in front of the hand brake drum . |
| 24 | I remember when I was about two-and-a-half or three , they used to come in and say to her , ‘ Mrs McGuigan , we do n't want to alarm you but your son is on top of that thirty-foot pole out there , ’ and my mother would say , ‘ Oh , that 's old hat , let's hear something new . ’ |
| 25 | My baby brother was on top of the refrigerator on a bed of clean nappies and towels in his plastic baby bath-tub . |