Example sentences of "he continue [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rising star Andrew Thornton is within one of last season 's 10 winner total as he continues to set a blistering pace in the battle for the amateur riders ' championship . |
| 2 | Mr Tholen chaired their appeal committee which raised £250,000 in three months and he continues to invest a small covenant in the school . |
| 3 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 4 | He continues to serve a 14-year sentence because of reports he sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation and for ‘ possession of anti-government literature ’ . |
| 5 | He continues to mix an off-hand sense of humour with a sharp insight . |
| 6 | He was the MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty three years , but when he gave up his seat in nineteen eighty three , he continued to put the Liberal case in the House of Lords . |
| 7 | He continued to do a workmanlike job , but the pleasure had gone out of it and he finished joint tenth . |
| 8 | He continued to take a keen interest in anything connected with espionage , and in 1915 published German Spies in England . |
| 9 | On retiring from it he continued to take an active part in military affairs . |
| 10 | He was president of the Newcastle Chemical Society ( 1871–2 ) and a vice-president until 1882 , when it became the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry , in which he continued to take an active interest . |
| 11 | However , even when in debt , he continued to enjoy an extravagant lifestyle . |
| 12 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 13 | With his cuts bandaged tightly with handkerchiefs and two pairs of socks inside his running shoes he managed the morning dash around the garden , but realised as each step became stickier and more painful that there was no real hope of the gashes healing while he continued to fulfil the personal fitness goals in his Training Plan . |
| 14 | If he continued to get the engaged sound he 'd probably assume that Berowne was having an evening of telephoning and let it go . ’ |
| 15 | After 9 years in which he applied microbial biochemistry to industrial manufacturing problems , he returned , in 1929 , to academic work as professor of biochemistry at the London School of Hygiene , where he continued to identify the chemical constituents of fungi and discover their functions . |
| 16 | He continued to win the highest show ring awards and was honoured by his fellow professionals with several testimonials . |
| 17 | He continued to suffer a great deal with poor health , which , he says , stirred him up to ‘ speak to sinners with some compassion as a dying man to dying men ’ . |
| 18 | Without speaking a word , he continued to scrutinise the young man and to feel greatly satisfied when he saw how he was unnerving his victim . |