Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been calling us cheats , but I had to call on our manager to try to put a stop to some of their own little tricks at Headingley . |
| 2 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 3 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 4 | But I had n't got much but I 'd got on my feet . |
| 5 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 6 | But I got to carry on walking , cos I do n't have no card . |
| 7 | At the Job Centre they were a bit funny about me going on government schemes because I had the baby , but I did get on one eventually . |
| 8 | Yeah but you did say on that base oh well you pay tax but obviously you must do as well then |
| 9 | Her new liver took straight away but she had to go on a ventilator because she was having problems with her lungs . ’ |
| 10 | BUT she had admitted on camera and tape that the deal was by no means a ‘ one-off ’ . |
| 11 | She did n't exactly throw herself against the door , but she began to beat on it with her fists . |
| 12 | She has not been directly involved in the Orkney situation , but she did lecture on ritual or satanic abuse at a two-day seminar in Aberdeen in November 1990 . |
| 13 | Unlike some couturiers Madame did not mind if her model girls did not have the same colour hair but she did insist on identical styles . |
| 14 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 15 | But she refused to speculate on a reconciliation . |
| 16 | BUT we deserved to win on Wednesday , and by enough goals to put us through . |
| 17 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 18 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 19 | But they had to take on the worry of people that could n't pay them . |
| 20 | A US State Department statement at the end of the meeting said that significant differences remained between the two sides , but they had agreed on the importance of ending the war peacefully . |
| 21 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 22 | The twelve environment ministers of the European Community have agreed that market forces can and should be used to environmental ends , but they failed to decide on the measures to be used or what the environmental ends should be . |
| 23 | ‘ Up to then , the fans had been tolerant , but they began to get on my back after that . |
| 24 | But he lived to reflect on what he described as the ‘ luckiest escape of my life ’ |
| 25 | But he seemed disposed on this occasion to discuss St Stephen 's , because its problems had lately been much on his mind . |
| 26 | He understood , he said , that the groom had been attacked earlier , in Toronto , when he foiled the kidnapping of a horse , but he had insisted on making the journey nevertheless , having been bandaged by a Miss Richmond . |
| 27 | Whether he was feeling the cold neither McCrea nor Sam had thought to ask , but he had put on jeans , his new cashmere sweater over his shirt and a zip-up leather jacket . |
| 28 | He was still barefoot , but he had put on a shirt . |
| 29 | Cameron recognized several of his workment from Aberfeldy and warmed to their comradeship — he had talked little politics with them ( in the aftermath of the big treason trials , caution had seemed advisable ) but he had passed on his newspapers and one of the men came from Lochaber like himself . |
| 30 | He paced his talk well , and his use of live models caught the attention , but he failed to capitalise on this by describing exactly what the models were demonstrating . |