Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] top of " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Her hand came down on top of a large bunch of them and she felt a sudden stinging pain .
3 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 .
4 ‘ Saunders came down on top of him .
5 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 .
6 The boat came up on top of the wave , with white water all around it .
7 After discussions , Martin Lynch 's name came out on top of the list . ’
8 Now it reports in here a survey carried out in The Doctor , September the twenty sixth , and it was asking there who they actually supported in terms of the National Health Service changes , and you may be surprised to hear who in fact came out on top of that .
9 Housing benefit will not come in on top of the rates .
10 And we called it the man-killer because we had ridge and furrow land down there , and this darn thing they was taking , and nothing would come over the top for ages , and suddenly the whole lot would come over on top of you , of course it as well , and you had to that 's what we were doing .
11 Oddly enough , Ceauşescu was always a shrewder judge of the likely choice for the highest offices of democratic electorates than of who would come out on top of the Soviet politburo .
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