Example sentences of "go [prep] the top of " in BNC.

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1 Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy .
2 ‘ He was seen going to the top of the tower .
3 This time a team from Gloucestershire are going to the top of the world .
4 yes , it 's already going to the top of the charts to be number one for Christmas all the other Christmas songs are
5 You might have been driving for years by going over the top of the wheel as a lot of lorry drivers do .
6 Going over the top of our heads is well-rooted and par for the course .
7 4 She retaliates by going over the top of her partner 's defence .
8 The track does n't go onto the shore , but goes along the top of some low cliffs above the beach .
9 The index finger is thus under the ferret 's throat and the thumb goes round the top of the neck .
10 SUPER Warrington wrecked Hull 's bid to go to the top of the Stones Bitter Championship .
11 If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic .
12 Fortunately , perfecting her roll was the breakthrough that gave Lesley the confidence to fight for her own to go on the top of the waves and start experimenting with hotdogging tricks .
13 And if you want to wear make up then of course , make up goes over the top of your moisturizer .
14 But I took the insole out put her foot on the insole and her foot goes over the top of it .
15 then er it goes over the top of their head dun n it ?
16 The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’
17 ‘ So he goes to the top of the tower to study them . ’
18 Can I have a look at those menus that some of you brought in did i , cos we 've got some with a la carte did anybody get sort of erm a pub grub menu or No , you all went for the top of the range .
19 Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board .
20 EALING went to the top of the Women 's Typhoo National League with a comfortable 3-0 win away to Exmouth at Ottery St Mary , writes Bill Colwill .
21 I went to the top of Ludgate Hill and watched exhausted men being carried out of the Old Bailey , then down side streets to where the steeple of St Bride 's church was tottering and the bells had gone crashing down minutes previously .
22 She went to the top of the stairs , then spun round and rushed back to hug Maggie Byrne with spontaneous affection .
23 He went to the top of the steps and looked around , he could n't see anyone or anything untoward ; he looked out of the window and he thought he saw a figure on or around the track .
24 So , not only did Anderson 's Dungannon qualify , but they quickly went to the top of the Division Two table and are now making a great bid for promotion .
25 Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below .
26 At any rate , he and his clan went to the top of the class as far as the DEA and CIA were concerned .
27 Kent went to the top of the cautioning league under Paul , now commissioner of the Metropolitan police .
28 I got up , retrieved the rifle , lying half-buried in the sand on the slope , went to the top of the hill , looked round , then decided to risk leaving everything as it was .
29 The bottle sunk , I returned to the dunes , went to the top of the one the Bunker lay half-buried in , and had a look round with my binoculars .
30 BAT Industries ' Brian Hutchinson went to the top of the class to mark the topping out of a £400,000 sports hall at Middlesbrough 's City Technology College .
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