At the top of the stairs he ran into somebody standing there angrily in a dressing gown.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

At the top of the hill the buildings on the left gave way to a park.

At the top of Figure 5, for example, the Onset range and Completion range lines for the chosen growth center have been drawn for girls according to their mean and standard deviation values in Table 1.

At the top a uniformed officer blocked further progress.

At the same instant, Elaine screamed wildly, the sound ending abruptly as Nick went off the boat and into the water on top of the frantic, struggling Poet.

At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

At the top of the structure is the forest.

At high levels of play, the formations will generally be more flexible: the top women players are capable of playing powerfully from the back-court, and will happily do so if required.

At the end of the opening round, the top 16 competitors move on to the playoffs.

At the top of the order, Dernier and Sandberg were exciting, aptly coined " the Daily Double " by Harry Caray.

At the top a capital ( also known as a chapiter ) or finial decorate the column, depending on whether it is attached to a structure or free-standing.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, presumably to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, which could have been used to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At the top were the Emperor and Court nobles ( kuge ), together with the Shogun and daimyo.

At the top were the two official classes, the Yangban that literally means " two classes.

At the top were the elite Europeans who owned plantations.

At the top were noblemen and direct descendants of the original Songhai people, followed by freemen and traders.

At the top of the tree there is a star or a glittering top piece.

At about the top of the compression stroke, fuel is injected directly into the compressed air in the combustion chamber.

At the top is a suspender of five graduated gold rays.

At the high school level, it is not uncommon to see multi-purpose goal posts that include football goal posts at the top and a soccer net at the bottom ; these are usually seen at smaller schools and in multi-purpose stadiums where facilities are used for multiple sports.

At the end of a season, the top team is declared the champion.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.

At four-o'clock, or four-thirty, the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; ;

At the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome receive the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pope on the rock.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.

At the end of the monologue the audience would applaud.

At the end of a shaft of light, the pews appeared to be broad stairs in a long dungeon.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

At the end of the run, the strips in the third and sixth positions in each chamber were dried, stained for 1 hr, washed and dried, while the other strips were maintained in a horizontal position at 1-degree-C.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

At the end of this pass, the table indicates which index words and electronic switches are not available for assignment to symbolic references.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

At the end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.

At the end of the corridor Alec noticed a door marked: Fire Stairs.

At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.

At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.