Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the top " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our bedroom was at the top of a winding staircase and afforded views of the square outside . |
| 2 | Josephine your work was on the top and I thought goodness that ca n't be Josephine 's writing . |
| 3 | I presume that more patients from his district were near the top of our waiting list ; in addition to , a third of the patients having such bypass operations from his district this year had unstable angina and were operated on urgently . |
| 4 | The new flat was at the top of a tall house in Bloomsbury , round the back of the British Museum . |
| 5 | It was propped against the wall of a house , + a man was at the top of it , painting a wall with white paint . |
| 6 | The letter was over the top ; there was never an elaborate pro-Smith conspiracy , although the possibility of his replacing Kinnock was discreetly canvassed at one time . |
| 7 | Dad was at the top of the cliff , looking down . |
| 8 | On one occasion Crawford was left hanging above the stage for ten minutes when there was a bomb scare and everyone left the theatre quickly , forgetting that the top-of-the-bill was at the top of the stage . |
| 9 | My arm was along the top of the back seat and I felt Barnes 's head fall back . |
| 10 | But I think that was when I was in the sea holding on to the bit of foam , and more or less just let myself float under the water , but me arm was round the top of the bit of foam , on the surface , and I think it got burnt by the the heat off the platform then . |
| 11 | Alison looked quite like her mother — only the mother was over the top and wore too much make-up . |