Example sentences of "and continued [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two families decided to stay put and continued to live alongside the squalor . |
| 2 | The first ones seem to have lived in the sea , but by the Silurian the jawless ( Agnathan ) fish were a prominent component of fresh- and brackish-water sites in many areas of the world , and continued to diversify into the Devonian period . |
| 3 | Defeated for the deputy party leadership at the Congress , Ligachev remained an open and vocal exponent of ‘ socialist perestroika ’ and continued to insist upon the priority of planning and party dominance . |
| 4 | After qualifying Margaret opened her own school of dancing in Hove and continued to teach until the birth of her two children ; music and dance have continued to play a major part throughout her life . |
| 5 | He knows that the poll tax was a shambles , but he was a diehard and continued to go to the wall with it . |
| 6 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 7 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 8 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 9 | Fiver said nothing and continued to stare over the field . |
| 10 | He raised his right hand to silence her and continued to stare at the tabletop before him , head cocked to one side . |
| 11 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ said Tom , and continued to walk up the road with Charlie still shouting after them . |
| 12 | The post-war fall in food prices , together with the larger cohorts seeking work , depressed agricultural wages , but new average real wage levels were dominated by industrial employment and continued to rise until the end of the nineteenth century . |