Example sentences of "top of the [noun sg] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The window actually overlooked the top of the yard where the lavatories and the coalhouses were situated , and it was the white material fluttering from the end of the coalhouse that attracted his eye .
2 A small patch of vines also exists right at the top of the village where the ground rises steeply to more than 220 metres .
3 It was focused on the top of the grandstand where the Royal Box was .
4 My father 's leg , locked solid , has given me my sanctuary up in the warm space of the big loft , right at the top of the house where the junk and the rubbish are , where the dust moves and the sunlight slants and the Factory sits — silent , living and still .
5 Occasionally two individual pieces are brought together to make a new complex whole as in the bronze cast Doll and Bow which now stands on the top of the Toybox where the toys , including a ball , are again in bronze and the box itself is the broken-off end of a stone carved sarcophagus .
6 We were only visible from the top of the hill where the railway tunnel was , and usually nobody went there .
7 They reached the top of the slope where the path curved towards the back door .
8 ‘ Certainly not … to catch me here ! ’ said the third , lifting on the breeze above me and hovering over the top of the pole where the trap was .
9 The key was on top of the frame where the lazy agent had left it , another Yale on a big paper tag .
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