Example sentences of "the top [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get it right , the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds , and all you 've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout , and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly … |
| 2 | Phil was amazed to watch a cross-breed Labrador remove the top off a bottle , turn it on its side , gulp down the milk and run off , licking his lips ! |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , I do n't know , ’ said Mrs Shorrocks as she flicked the top off a bottle of ale , took a swig and then pushed it over to Charlie . |
| 4 | If it is selector trouble this is often possible to rectify by taking the top off the gearbox in situ . |
| 5 | Probably knocked the top off the tree . |
| 6 | Take the top off the chicken |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe I leave the top off the toothpaste ! ’ |
| 8 | He was using Kring to lever the top off the altar . |
| 9 | He is quietly working his way to the top as a referee — and he is just 18 months away from landing his first League fixture . |
| 10 | Quite an achievement but Ernie would put all that to one side if his 18-year-old son Mark could get to the top as a racer — although Mark gives every indication that he will stick with the short circuits and avoid the roads . |
| 11 | Birkenhead-born Swain , who tasted life at the top as a player with Chelsea , Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa , said : ‘ Relegation is a terrible feeling for everyone involved and it wo n't go away until the first game of the season . |
| 12 | He finds it difficult to cope after being at the top as a player through natural talent . |
| 13 | Many players automatically roll the wrists at the start of the backswing , with the club being laid at the top as a result . |
| 14 | MIPS Technologies Inc refugee Chet Sylvestri , now over at Sun Microsystems Inc and responsible for putting Sparc over the top as an architecture , reckons a key step could be getting the otherwise anathema Windows NT operating system ported to the chip . |
| 15 | Sadly for us , George found it necessary to reach the top via a Football League club and he moved to Oldham in September 1910 , for a fee variously quoted as between £450 and £800 , in order to gain his England recognition . |
| 16 | Place the top over a jam jar of water , with the base resting just under the water . |
| 17 | You can discover the great square keep , and enjoy the panoramic view from the top over the town below . |
| 18 | His move , in January 1988 , turned out to be one of the scheduling masterstrokes of the ‘ 80s , and within months the soap 's ratings had soared towards the 20 million mark and the top to the TV charts . |
| 19 | If they are the same say something like ‘ I think this is going to be a fun game ’ and at the same time smoothly slide a card from the top to the bottom . |
| 20 | The warp describes the strands of material that run lengthways from the top to the bottom of a rug and form the fringes at the ends ; the weft runs widthways and forms the selvedges , or sides . |
| 21 | A neat feature is that the bar always moves out of the way when you get near it , hopping from the top to the bottom of the screen and vice versa . |
| 22 | The socio- psychological stress positively discouraged people to participate in the socioeconomic and sociolinguistic life of the wider community.In industry with a large ethnic , non-English speaking labour force any ‘ vertical communication ’ from the top to the bottom can be greatly facilitated by the use of a language that the participants in the discourse of instruction or socialisation understand and identify with . |
| 23 | The skiing arrangement is simple : you take the cablecar from the bottom to the top , then you ski from the top to the bottom . |
| 24 | If you 're on a long run conditions may change from the top to the bottom ; and when you feel your skis biting through the top surface it 's time to head back to the piste before you break up the snow too much . |
| 25 | We 've got to continue that restraint even as things start to get better , and that means restraints from the top to the bottom , from board room to shop floor . |
| 26 | It is a change in culture and in attitude from the top to the bottom . |
| 27 | I used to walk a tread , a mark from the top to the bottom of the field . |
| 28 | It 's all in , I mean the days are down from the top to the bottom . |
| 29 | Using your thumbs alternately , stroke down the bridge of the nose from the top to the tip . |
| 30 | Al Phizacklea repeated Minotaur on the East Buttress of Scafell ( again abseiling in from the top to the start of the ice ) . |