Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 2 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 3 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 4 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 5 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 6 | Erm it 's really just coming back on the issue of concealed household earlier . |
| 7 | But these larger firms are already cutting down on the size of their student intake and , if the trend continues , will end up — as Grant Thornton has already done — recruiting and training only staff who are expected to make a career with the firm after qualifying . |
| 8 | There are only so many ways to describe a pitch and there is very little need to alter descriptions if the existing ones work perfectly well , thus cutting down on the number of major rewrites required . |
| 9 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 10 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 11 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 12 | It certainly is n't simply a case of just reading up on the reviews , playing around with a couple of the likely programs and then buying a system or two and expecting peace , harmony and perfect publications to be the end result ! |
| 13 | Buffy was a young man at the time , just setting out on the journey of life , if you know what I mean . |
| 14 | With this sort of baggage still going round on the carousel , it 's a pity that Europa Europa does n't marshall its thought-provoking material into a better movie . |
| 15 | ‘ Still coming out on the junk tomorrow afternoon ? ’ |
| 16 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 17 | The train rumbled nearer , Ian was still jigging about on the parapet , he could see the smoke box lamp flickering , then as the train was almost on the bridge the smoke enveloped the structure as Ian was doing his Highland jig ; he suddenly lost his balance and fell down onto the smoke box frame , the force of the fall did its lethal work and killed Ian Watson . |
| 18 | As we passed close by we made out a cross , erected at the tip in 1896 after two destroyers collided in thick fog , eventually breaking up on the headland . |
| 19 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 20 | The club scene is now inundated with New Zealand and Australian coaches , due in no small part to the success of Garryowen , current AIL champions under their New Zealand coach , my husband , Murray Kidd. the IRFU is also getting in on the act with the appointment of former All Black captain and current Wellington coach Andy Leslie to its coaching panel . |
| 21 | Emeryville , California-based Sybase Inc is also getting in on the act , saying that it has licensed IBM Corp 's Distributed Relational Database Architecture and plans to use it to support distributed unit of work access between IBM databases , and Sybase SQL Server and Open Client and Open Server applications . |
| 22 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 23 | Network Computing Devices Inc pretty much has the dedicated X-terminal business sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 24 | Network Computing Devices Inc has the dedicated X-terminal business pretty much sewn up , and the Mountain View , California company is now moving in on the personal computer X Window System emulation business dominated by the likes of Canadian outfit Hummingbird Communications Ltd and UK firm XVision Ltd , with launch of PC-Xware , a single software package that it claims provides full X terminal functionality on personal computers for the first time . |
| 25 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 26 | Wales are now getting in on the act . |
| 27 | As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly . |
| 28 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 29 | This basilica was replaced during the Renaissance by that now standing up on the site ( Volume 2 ) . |
| 30 | But Isabel had plenty of spirit , Guy reminded himself , ruthlessly stamping down on the protectiveness the sight of her always seemed to arouse in him . |