Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | were broken at the top . |
| 2 | Dubbed Britain 's answer to the Supremes , the Divas were tipped for the top . |
| 3 | He does not court publicity having witnessed other ministers who were tipped for the top and never made it . |
| 4 | Inkwells were let into the top of the desks and each Friday afternoon the ink monitors from Standard Seven would arrive with trays , collect these inkwells , take them into the lobby and refill them with very watery ink from a small water can . |
| 5 | Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks . |
| 6 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 7 | He was dressed in a pair of well-worn-looking jeans that were stuffed into the tops of his black rubber boots , with a thick roll-neck sweater , a dark navy blue , beneath the battered-looking dark green waterproof jacket . |
| 8 | After the cement was loaded ( up to 404 lbs per cask ) , the circular lid was firmly tapped into place , the destination and other details were burned upon the lid , and the hoops were tightened at the top to hold the lid in place . |
| 9 | Dacourt also was provided with his own chamber but we were taken to the top of the palace . |
| 10 | They were thrown to the top of the furnace and burned away merrily . |
| 11 | Under the Defence regulations in 1916 , sidelamps in little wooden boxes were fitted to the top of the dash , like their Corporation counterparts . |
| 12 | Festivities and worship-rites were held on the top which declined when the new faith arrived . |