Example sentences of "top of the [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | For West Indies , two bowlers , Garner and Marshall , shared the honours at the top of the averages with 27 wickets each , Garner 's being slightly the less expensive at just 16 apiece . |
| 2 | Earlier Paul Olsson had hit the top of the bar with a great lob early in the second half . |
| 3 | Place the three strips one on top of the other with seams at the back ; slipstitch ends together . |
| 4 | Divide each rectangular cake in half widthways and sandwich one on top of the other with buttercream to give a four-storey cake . |
| 5 | No mater what the book is — marxist polemic , feminist social criticism , or a gothic romance — and no matter that I take notes on three-by-five notecards ranged on top of the heater with my mug and my biscuits , I still do not feel that I 'm working . |
| 6 | The fact that it all seems to come so pat : on top of the row with Viola , just after the publication of the book , just when the second book was going to bring her a lot of money . |
| 7 | Dust the top of the salad with cayenne pepper . |
| 8 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 9 | Flex your knees , grasp the top of the harness with both hands , lift the pack and balance it on your right thigh . |
| 10 | At Nateby , the road to Keld turns out of the village to spiral upwards to the top of the pass with good views of Mallerstang Edge during the ascent . |
| 11 | I sit in my room at the top of the house with my swabs and solvents , my brushes and pigments . |
| 12 | Nigel Mansell and the Williams team from Didcot are on top of the world with three straight wins … already Mansell is in provisional pole position for Sunday 's Barcelona Grand Prix . |
| 13 | Someone had nailed a simple crucifix to the top of the lid with the name ‘ Cosmas ’ scrawled in black beneath it . |
| 14 | Ferguson has guided his side to the top of the Premiership with four wins and a draw . |
| 15 | Each is then invited to hit the top of the cards with the flat of their hand in order to turn their card over . |
| 16 | Make a X-cut in the top of the stump with a knife , and within a couple of months a series of small cabbages will develop from the cuts . |
| 17 | Some months later , Gary came top of the class with an average mark of 93% . |
| 18 | It was a tiny place — nothing more than a shop knocked through from the street at ground level , no more than 60 feet long At one end was a small bar — from which we sold orange juices on top of the counter with the booze tucked away underneath . |
| 19 | I can only suppose that a large bird took hold of the ring on top of the box with his talons , and flew away with it . |
| 20 | Allow to cool slightly , then brush top of the cake with apricot glaze . |
| 21 | Brush the smooth top of the cake with apricot glaze ( see page 15 ) and turn it over on to the centre of the marzipan , glaze side down . |
| 22 | The next day , attach the body to the top of the cake with the help of a cocktail stick and a little royal icing . |
| 23 | Smooth and fill any cracks or pits on top of the cake with spare pieces of fondant to give a smooth , rounded surface . |
| 24 | Keeping one hand under the fondant for support , smooth it over the top of the cake with your other hand , easing the icing into all the hollows and indentations . |
| 25 | Secure the cone to the top of the cake with a little royal icing . |
| 26 | Paul starts to move the boats to the top of the falls whilst I run on ahead to talk to the police at the top of the falls with the nice man from the Northern Echo . |
| 27 | For a simple cut-out outline or geometric shape such as a circle , rectangle or wedge , just hold the cut-out on top of the icing with one hand while you lightly score around it with a pin using the other hand . |
| 28 | I wrote it down on the top of the table with my pencil . |
| 29 | The former England Under-21 international , 23 last Tuesday , has been intrumental in the Norfolk club 's surprise position at the top of the table with his 12 goals , arguably making him the buy of the season . |
| 30 | Wasps , top of the table with a 100 per cent record , admit they have yet to play to their full potential . |