Example sentences of "the top of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is valuable is to see that here is a critic writing at the top of his bent . |
| 2 | Difficulties can be many , at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued . |
| 3 | Besides , there 's only one for the top of the class . |
| 4 | His bleary eyes filled with tears but he tilted his head back and glared at the top of the tent . |
| 5 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 6 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 7 | Liz , the receptionist , peered at me over the top of her pink-rimmed spectacles . |
| 8 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 9 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 10 | A little way along , I saw a path running up the bank to my left and on the top of this bank there was a rather eccentric mock-Gothic porchway . |
| 11 | The beans have now reached the top of their 6ft canes and I 'm praying that any autumn gales will be delayed until the beans are all safely harvested . |
| 12 | For earwigs bend on molesting your chrysanthemums , wood-wool or hay stuffed into a small flowerpot hung upside down at the top of a cane offers a similarly unsafe and temporary lodging . |
| 13 | From their first-floor sitting room the Lloyds have a new perspective on the garden , the pool and the top of their pergola ! |
| 14 | During a winch launch the potential load on the glider is at a maximum near the top of the launch , when the pull of the cable adds directly to the weight of the glider . |
| 15 | Sideburns shall not extend below the bottom of the outer ear opening ( the top of the earlobe ) and shall end in a clean-shaven horizontal line . |
| 16 | Go to Woodstock , the sea , the top of a mountain , a river , go forever from the flat respectability of home and market town . |
| 17 | Jay kissed the top of his head . |
| 18 | There are some people who claim to be able to control an axe kick to the top of the opponent 's head , but I have never seen this done effectively enough to score . |
| 19 | Therefore , you should train to lift the level of aerobic endurance by selecting a training routine and working at it until your pulse rate is raised to the top of the aerobic band . |
| 20 | If the opponent 's attack is a face punch , then hit his extended arm with your forearm , glancing your punch over the top of his and into the target . |
| 21 | If the action is sharp enough your opponent 's punch will graze over the top of your head , helped on its way by a fast rising block . |
| 22 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 23 | He dreamed , each time , of his plantation in Jamaica — banana palms leafed like green fountains , bright orange papaws clustered at the top of their naked stems , a noise of surf quickened the air with its rustling freshness . |
| 24 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
| 25 | As the men at the windlass rope heaved and a long timber started to rise up and swing , the wheel on the pulley squealed like an injured dog and the man stationed at the top of the wall took a stickful of thick grease from a pot , leaned out , and worked it into the axle . |
| 26 | An old twenties or earlier photograph of Jewish emigrants to Palestine adorns the top of a bookcase . |
| 27 | He rose , flung his arms wide , took a deep inhalation of sea air and climbed the few paces to the top of the dune where he would be visible to the clothed . |
| 28 | I 'm sure they 're the sort that drop sticky stuff on the top of the car . ’ |
| 29 | They were free to look over the top of the box to see what size the bricks really were , and they were quite aware that their own view was distorted because one of the portholes contained a magnifying lens . |
| 30 | A braindamaged man who lives with his mother near the top of the tenement comes in at eleven o'clock , after sweeping out Seventh Street Pizza . |