Example sentences of "over [art] top [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox . |
| 3 | He really looked so absurdly young and guileless , so like a starry-eyed subaltern about to go over the top into the machine-guns of the Somme , that Maxim almost answered . |
| 4 | Although the literary effusions of Hurtley and Wordsworth and the exaggerated landscapes of James Ward and J. M.W. Turner seem a little over the top to us dwellers in the twentieth century ( who , since the advent of the camera and the picture postcard , like our landscape more real and our prose less flowery ) , the scar nevertheless overhangs and dominates the scene as an example of the incredible forces at work when the landscape we now see was formed . |
| 5 | Resisting the temptation to go over the top with innovation ( suspension is coils and dampers not hydropneumatic ) , the designers have still managed to introduce some novelties . |
| 6 | In the shady corner , I wanted to create more of a woodsy atmosphere and probably went a bit over the top with primulas — not just wild primroses and oxlips but some of their prettier hybrids , like the dark-leaved , mauve-pink flowered ‘ Garryarde Guinevere ’ and the enchanting little double lilac primroses ‘ Quakers ' Bonnets ’ . |
| 7 | I mixed the cocoa shell with the soil , filled and planted the bed and then mulched over the top with more cocoa shell . |
| 8 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
| 9 | DIANE BROWN & BARRIE K SHARPE : ‘ Love Or Nothing ’ ( ffrr ) the ‘ Ground Beat ’ sound goes over the top with this soul brothers track amalgamating R&B , Philly , Garage and just a hint of hip-hop — out now |
| 10 | Had she known what was in store , Ruth thought afterwards , she would have begged to walk over the top with the horse . |
| 11 | Klownz went over the top with this style ! |
| 12 | What absolute rubbish — he 's gone right over the top with a load of old cobblers there and I do n't know why . |
| 13 | Miss H. K. Todd , of Ramsgate , Kent said : ‘ We should be careful to keep sex in check ’ — clearly suggesting I should n't go over the top with this topic . |
| 14 | Press it down lightly and smooth over the top with a palette knife . |
| 15 | I do n't go over the top with compliments . |
| 16 | I think there 's a danger that you can go over the top with praise , in that you 're anxious to give quality feedback , the thing that you have to be careful with is that it 's not just meaningless like that , because that can be just as bad as giving negative feedback . |
| 17 | There 's nothing wrong with being optimistic , but Bulgarian sweeper Nicolai Iliev is surely going over the top with his prediction . |
| 18 | I do n't think he 'll go over the top with it |
| 19 | He was over the top with some of it . |
| 20 | One ice-breaker went over the top on the Oxford Canal at Nell 's Bridge on Saturday and plunged neck deep into freezing water |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Snakes , locusts , bacteria and viruses are welcome to occupy their valuable niches in our world but they do go over the top on occasions . |
| 23 | And he warned his opponents : ‘ If you are going over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game . |
| 24 | He says : ‘ If you 're going to go over the top on me you 've got to put me out of the game because I 'll be coming back for you . ’ |
| 25 | Smith , one of the tough nuts that Jones salutes , reckons Wimbledon 's ‘ Psycho ’ has gone well over the top on his vulgar video nasty . |
| 26 | Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it . |
| 27 | I 'm over the top on that budget as it is . ’ |
| 28 | But this time Hardy went straight on to the attack , putting Holmes on the canvas with a right over the top for an initial count of seven . |
| 29 | Even at 40 per cent off the list price it still costs £1,500 , plus VAT -a bit over the top for me . |
| 30 | Pat Morley , producer of RTE 's major youth programme Beatbox , said : ‘ It 's a bit over the top for us , it might offend viewers . ’ |