Example sentences of "as we [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we walked on to the jetty , I was watching carefully to make sure none of my trunks was left on board . |
| 2 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 3 | But as we continued on to the broad plateau of Geal-Charn , not named on the ordnance survey map , we saw a figure in the distance . |
| 4 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
| 5 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |