Example sentences of "top of a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 2 | A little would be sprinkled into a small metal dish placed on top of a metal cylinder . |
| 3 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 4 | Go to Woodstock , the sea , the top of a mountain , a river , go forever from the flat respectability of home and market town . |
| 5 | An old twenties or earlier photograph of Jewish emigrants to Palestine adorns the top of a bookcase . |
| 6 | He states that it is not necessary to use vinegar or mild acetic acid to neutralise the reaction , as it is a waste of time to apply a mild acid on top of a stronger acid . |
| 7 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 8 | Coming on top of a worryingly high inflation rate and a sequence of record-breaking trade deficits , Labour will be working hard to demonstrate that ordinary people are paying dearly for mistakes which the once super-abundantly confident Chancellor has made in economic management . |
| 9 | In the arrangement in my act , the song floats on top of a piano sonata : it 's the Brechtian thing of throwing responsibility for the sentiment to your audience . ’ |
| 10 | Once he jumped from a roof and managed to land on the soft top of a passing van . |
| 11 | I also think it 's a question of being able to provide , certainly at the top of a company , a sense of direction and I find it hard to see how you can have an absolutely clear sense of direction unless you yourself are able to assess the essentials as you see them for success in your particular trade . |
| 12 | It burned at the top of a 25Oft stack and we tried all sorts of things to get it to light again . |
| 13 | Who will ever believe that I lay there , stripped naked , 1,000 metres up on top of a hill that is 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle ? |
| 14 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 15 | We edge up a small re-entrant to the top of a ridge , while the second aircraft creeps along a woodline 200 metres to the left . |
| 16 | He recently removed a stone lion from the top of a building in Preston with hired crane — a traffic-stopping exercise . |
| 17 | Quarry tiles in the kitchen , dining room and hall are laid on the diagonal , on top of a timber floor . |
| 18 | A wooden Tudor bowl and a cider flagon cover the top of a pine haberdasher 's chest ; the framed crewelwork behind must have been ‘ horrendously bright ’ at one time , but has now faded to more acceptably gentle colours . |
| 19 | Incommunicado , which Hogarth saw fit to sing from the top of a heap of loudspeakers , blustered along with lots of fists punching the air , but was basically turgid . |
| 20 | In January rampaging inflation ( 70% in that month alone , on top of a rate for the previous 12 months estimated at 700–900% ) and a tight wage squeeze produced a 40% drop in the average Pole 's standard of living . |
| 21 | Home is the old nursery-quarters at the top of a big house overlooking Lough Erne . |
| 22 | She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months . |
| 23 | His voice was tragic , the words bubbled out rapidly on top of a sigh . |
| 24 | On the top of a steep rocky hill there appeared to be a fortress , with every window lit . |
| 25 | Marie could see that , even after one glimpse from the top of a bus . |
| 26 | Left alone , Marie retreated to her comer and sat on top of a cupboard in a mess of spilled crisps and ketchup . |
| 27 | She had caught sight of it only once , from the top of a bus , but she knew , from watching television , from looking at pictures in her mother 's magazines , what it must be like . |
| 28 | ‘ I saw you once — from the top of a bus … . ’ |
| 29 | As they trudged up to the top of a sand-dune , Seal Sands Lock was there below them . |
| 30 | Suddenly Gazzer appeared , climbing wearily over the top of a sand dune . |