Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] at [art] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to keep the existing pipes ( perhaps using a tap adaptor ) , use a bath/basin spanner to disconnect them at the top . |
| 2 | Cameramen never bother me at the top of my swing . |
| 3 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 4 | Outside she found herself at the top of a fire escape . |
| 5 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 6 | I turned over … and found myself at the top of page three . |
| 7 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
| 8 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 9 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |
| 10 | It 's the door facing you at the top of the stairs . |
| 11 | Already he was capable , it seemed , of making that impact on the stage which was , in record time , to put him at the top of his treacherous profession and bring on the applause of his finest contemporaries . |
| 12 | And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’ |
| 13 | Do n't you have to do you no cos if you trim them at the top to bush out |
| 14 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 15 | If anybody comes in for a car radio cassette , I 've stuck one at the top there twenty quid if anybody |
| 16 | 65 per cent of female college students continued a story which begins , ‘ After first term finals , Anne finds herself at the top of her medical school class ’ , by expressing conflicts about success , anticipating its present or future negative consequences , denying the student 's effort or ability , ignoring the cue , or showing other ‘ bizarre or inappropriate responses ’ ( 1972 : 161 , 162 ) . |
| 17 | At the end of first term finals , Anne finds herself at the top of her medical school class ! |
| 18 | I 've marked it at the top . |
| 19 | you can have it at the top where you 've changed it and then the window underneath you can scan it through the file again . |
| 20 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 21 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 22 | If you are over the limit and have goods to declare , keep them at the top of your luggage or in a separate parcel . |
| 23 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 24 | So I just stood there while they shouted " Jolly hockey sticks , " across as her , and then Kevin started them off singing , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … , " ever so softly , to the tune of " Auld Lang Syne " till her bus came , and then they sang it at the tops of their voices as she staggered onto the bus and moved down to the back seat . |
| 25 | They were also asked to write about ‘ John ’ finding himself at the top of his medical school . |
| 26 | ‘ More than twenty thousand , mein Fuhrer , ’ said Buhle , putting himself at the top of the class . |
| 27 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 28 | Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession . |
| 29 | His new album Goodbye Jumbo seems to have put him at the top of the list of those eager to nominate a spokesman for the green generation . |
| 30 | When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere . |