Example sentences of "[pers pn] from the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw you from the top of the tower . |
| 2 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 3 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 4 | Someone was watching them from the top of the stairs . |
| 5 | I gritted my teeth and picked the warm remnant up , took it back to the Grounds and flung it into them from the top of the bank . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 7 | After a few minutes , he became aware of Peter Dawson 's portrait staring down at him from the top of the piano , and he stopped . |
| 8 | Adam watched him from the top of the bus . |
| 9 | She saw his glance rake her from the top of her shining chestnut hair over her make-up-free face , and down over her pretty cotton wrap to the tips of her toes . |
| 10 | ‘ Good evening , Fabia , ’ he greeted her smoothly as the housekeeper melted away , his dark eyes flicking over her from the top of her golden head , taking in her features and perfect complexion before travelling over her long-sleeved fine wool lime-coloured dress , its straight lines hiding none of her femininity , before his all-assessing gaze ended at her neat two-and-a-half-inch-heel shoes . |
| 11 | He constructed his own refined version of the newly-invented telescope and peered through it from the top of St Mark 's tower in Venice . |
| 12 | Well they ca n't push it from the top |
| 13 | Now take it from the top . |
| 14 | Copy it from the top of page forty six and we are then ready to proceed . |
| 15 | I walked down it from the top to bottom and could only marvel at the way it had been constructed . |
| 16 | Well that was what they call it , tortoise stove , used to be a big stove and that ai n't got no grate in they had er they used to feed it from the top , |
| 17 | And take it from the top … but this time the council 's calling the tune . |
| 18 | How far was he from the top ? |