Example sentences of "be over [art] top " in BNC.

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1 I 'm over the top on that budget as it is . ’
2 In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top .
3 Dandelion would be over the top and back almost as fast as a hare .
4 It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays .
5 Rivals like Clarify , it says , are over the top at $5,000 a seat .
6 AF boss Dr Bruno Broughton said : ‘ There is nothing wrong with the bulk of the IFM proposals but forcing people to qualify before being allowed to go fishing is over the top . ’
7 Now Liam Gael is over the top .
8 When air gets into the top of the straw , it pushes the water out , but not when you finger is over the top .
9 Keith thinks this is over the top .
10 ‘ So I do n't think a £4.5m tag for Pally is over the top .
11 I do n't think anybody would say that 's over the top .
12 That 's over the top .
13 Alison looked quite like her mother — only the mother was over the top and wore too much make-up .
14 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 .
15 He was over the top like PC Dixon taking out a French terrorist cell .
16 Two minutes later he was over the top and out of danger .
17 She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas .
18 We all thought the Swindon one was over the top did n't we ?
19 Well I was er it would be about nineteen twenty two , I was about , cos I , I was er used trip the light fantastic fantastic a bit you know when I ran about seventeen and we used to which billiard hall there was an entrance from Street and it went up the steps into the dance hall , it was over the top of the billiard hall right to the private houses next to them , it was quite a I was sixteen , seventeen in that er dance hall at the time .
20 Yeah but Joey was over the top if anything was n't he ?
21 He was over the top with some of it .
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