Example sentences of "but on [art] night " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nails was always roaming about on his own but on a night like this there was not much attraction in it . |
| 2 | In the block we start running from just in front of the ladder , but on the night we 've first of all got to run from the block to the wire , which is twenty yards away in the nearest place and then put the ladder up . |
| 3 | Milner-Gibson had made nine solo landings in recces of the beaches during the three weeks before the raid , but on the night his boat 's compass proved faulty and others lost their way . |
| 4 | But on the night of the vote it was very physical . |
| 5 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 6 | He auditioned the song for the show and all went well , but on the night of the big gig itself , the Editor of CBS-TV Programming decided to give it the chop , fearing that the talking blues , which lampooned both the society and racism in general , might upset redneck viewers . |
| 7 | They vanished from Ireland during my great-grandfather 's time , but on the night of Samain , the gateways between their world and ours open of their own accord , and they come back . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know , but on the night she died the Lady Prioress asked me to help take the corpse back to her own chamber . |
| 9 | At first I thought someone climbed the wall and put them there , but on the night I was chased by Gaveston 's dogs , I found that was an impossible feat . |
| 10 | But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago : |
| 11 | They wanted to make it a game to remember for their boss , for birthday boy , Glenn , but on the night , sadly , there was no icing on the Town cake . |
| 12 | ‘ But on the night Sir Ralph died he was in Philippa 's bed , and on the night Sir Gerard died , in his lady 's chamber . |