Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] in on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of literally dropping in on the enemy and catching them unawares would have seemed attractive after several months ' idleness . |
| 2 | Her habit of jealously bursting in on Gustave when he was dining with friends was notorious . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's just looking in on them . |
| 4 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 5 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 6 | In the mid-1980s , drainage contractors in the Midlands are still moving in on river valleys , starting with the stream itself and then clearing every adjacent hedge and copse as part of the same contract . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Wales are now getting in on the act . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 15 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll have to act as gaoler , clocking my cousin in and out of lessons , even sitting in on your classes should that prove to be necessary . ’ |
| 16 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 17 | After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn . |
| 18 | Or if , as was soon clear to many , something was wrong with the claims , it would be possible to show how the standard workings of science can design experiments to answer specific questions , strategically closing in on the truth . |
| 19 | And at the heart of that operation was a crackdown on outsiders the Minogue machine felt were unfairly cashing in on her success . |
| 20 | Sally , erm well Scotland is very enthusiastic about the birthday appeal and we have five major events planned , erm two in the Glasgow area and two in Edinburgh and one up at Gleneagles and erm in all of these events we 're actually pulling in on our people 's expertise to widen our contacts , so it 's not just the fund members who are running these things . |
| 21 | and the deferred pensioners are not actually getting in on the debate , they 're not often represented on the trustees in fact . |