Example sentences of "but [pron] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 2 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 3 | But she clung on to the post , her body sinking to the floor , oblivious to the groans that issued from her own throat , and the words that formed on her lips . |
| 4 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 5 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 6 | Leicester wobbled , but they hung on for the record equalling win . |
| 7 | There was a strong chase behind and the leaders never got more than a 25-second gap but they held on to the finish where Scott was strongest up the hill to 21 win by a second with Downey a further 14 seconds back . |
| 8 | He could n't see you if you were standing right in front of him , but he carried on at the anvil and used to feel the iron he was working . ’ |
| 9 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 10 | ‘ But what goes on on the terraces seems to be very simple and almost harmless compared with that Rugby Club of yours . ’ |