Example sentences of "but [pers pn] was [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people said I should get probation , but I was looking on the black side and thought I would get a sentence of three to five years . |
| 2 | But I was sitting on the sands of Ke Iki at midnight with a fairy-tale princess , a Botticelli Venus whose long blonde tresses reflected golden glints from the fire . |
| 3 | But I was working on it . |
| 4 | She knew what to expect from the cykeman , but she was counting on his not knowing what to expect from her . |
| 5 | And it was on the floor but she was lying on the bottle . |
| 6 | Well , I 'm not supposed to tell you but he was smoking on the station when we just caught sight of him . |
| 7 | The woman knew he meant every word he said , but he was counting on the fact that she would never convince her husband of it . |
| 8 | And that Azul knew the full story but he was leaving on a foreign trip … well , this afternoon . |
| 9 | I saw him this morning but he was sitting on another table . |
| 10 | The yacht 's interior could be finished by Mo , but he was relying on Warwick Collins to design a yacht with an exhilarating performance . |
| 11 | We were level but it was playing on my nerve-ends . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know whether it was like Howard Hughes and cleanliness , but it was going on that way . ’ |