Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] top " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the first time in his career he has n't come out on top . |
| 2 | He has survived bankruptcy , libel , and having to resign as deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , and he 's still come out on top . |
| 3 | Brenda Lambert , headteacher at South Wellfield First School , Whitley Bay , Tyne and Wear , said : ‘ We made up some of the recipes and John Major 's has come out on top . |
| 4 | So far I 've come out on top , but one day the damn thing will expire just to spite me . ’ |
| 5 | The leading two mile chasers had clashed on six previous occasions and each time Katabatic had come out on top . |
| 6 | If the play were left at that , then , Brutus would have come out on top , but since Mark Antony was left to talk , his extremely clever speech then persuaded the crowd into thinking his way , as we shall see now . |
| 7 | Their father may know that if he simply ‘ refuses to intervene ’ the older one , stronger and more resourceful , is bound to come out on top … |
| 8 | It was the prison , of course , which was to come out on top . |
| 9 | However did people manage to discipline themselves and stick to a single line for long enough to gain control , to come out on top , to become the boss instead of the employee ? |
| 10 | So what you must do , and it is not easy , is to create a clown-like detective hero who has a core of toughness , of shrewdness even , which will allow him in the end plausibly to come out on top . |
| 11 | I hate to disillusion you , but I 'd have been hard pressed to come out on top with those odds ! ’ |
| 12 | Regular stars of the contest , Alan Crossthwaite and Tony Dance , both fought hard in the singles final , but it was Alan who was able to draw on the experience of his many double successes to come out on top . |
| 13 | A student at Lashan Gliding Centre was badly hurt once when the glider lifted off the ground and came down on top of him as he walked by the nose . |
| 14 | Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain . |
| 15 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 16 | ‘ Saunders came down on top of him . |
| 17 | She wound her arms around his neck , eagerly accepting his heated kisses until he lifted her on to the bed and came down on top of her , covering her and dominating her . |
| 18 | The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it . |
| 19 | After discussions , Martin Lynch 's name came out on top of the list . ’ |
| 20 | It was always the territory owner who ( literally ) came out on top . |
| 21 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
| 22 | second time around , by chance or otherwise , as animals further evolved to repopulate the Earth , the mammals came out on top ( although a case can be made that it was really the insects that came out on top ! ) |
| 23 | They came out on top by just eight points from the Ford Hailwood-Liverpool club , who had arrived with a strong squad and a determined look in their eyes . |
| 24 | She was ridden by Pat Eddery over seven furlongs , but it was Willie Ryan 's mount Musicale , who came out on top . |
| 25 | This England did superbly and came out on top . |
| 26 | According to sources , a user evaluating IBM 's 100 SPECmark-rated RS/6000 Model 970 against similarly configured Hewlett-Packard Co PA-RISC 7100 and DEC Alpha systems found that in application performance comparisons the RS/6000 came out on top , followed by the HP and DEC boxes , though there was some variation according to job mix . |
| 27 | Interestingly , when we tested slimming clubs recently , it was also Slimmer 's World that came out on top . |
| 28 | And er the British catapult came out on top . |
| 29 | It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway . |
| 30 | My father walked out on my mother when I was seven , so the English influence came out on top from then on . ’ |