Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) . |
| 4 | Well you 're not going out on the razzle dazzle . |
| 5 | Th the remit though that , that we 're actually putting down on the appointment contract , is actually the result of the negotiations between the project coordinator and the client . |
| 6 | Wales are now getting in on the act . |
| 7 | The cost that they were having to bear were greater than what they were actually getting back on the sale of this stuff . |
| 8 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Bristol Technology Inc , a tiny , privately-held , six-person shop in Ridgefield , Connecticut , is currently bearing down on the problem of how to move Microsoft Corp Windows applications to Unix . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | He was here checking up on the search for Terry Place . |