Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
2 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly . |
8 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
9 | An accumulation of weathered loess and colluvial deposits forms a band from the Cramant boundary , through the hollow between the two villages , beyond Avize and Oger , eventually petering out on the communal border of le Mesnil-sur-Oger . |
10 | All they needed was a lot of practice and some supervision and correcting , and occasionally putting back on the right track when they strayed . |