Example sentences of "continued [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red-hot rocks continued to slide from the place . |
| 2 | Wickets continued to fall on the Thursday , the usually reliable Mead managing only 24 , and Tennyson himself out for 45 . |
| 3 | The snow continued to fall as the Quattro clawed its way eastward towards whatever it was that they were seeking , whatever terrible things were waiting at journey 's end . |
| 4 | After the mid-1970s , however , the proportion of local spending funded by central grants fell sharply , and continued to fall into the 1980s . |
| 5 | As the shares continued to fall in the wake of Eurotunnel 's estimate that the project would cost at least £2.2bn more than forecast , Alastair Morton , co-chairman of the Anglo-French consortium was in Paris trying to persuade the French banks of the need for new financing . |
| 6 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 7 | But profits continued to fall in the troubled consultancy division which is up for sale . |
| 8 | PAY increases continued to fall in the three months to the end of February , figures out today show . |
| 9 | Despite rising expenditure , the ratio of paupers to total population continued to fall from the 1870s and rose only slightly during the depression of 1903–05 . |
| 10 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 11 | The results displayed in Fig. 3.14 show that these subjects continued to orient to the light over the course of 16 ten-trial sessions . |
| 12 | Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris . |
| 13 | She continued to go to the shop and had managed to clear the backlog of work and correspondence . |
| 14 | Most people continued to go to the cinema occasionally , and about two-fifths of C2 and DE audiences in 1986 claimed feature films were their favourite TV programmes . |
| 15 | He knows that the poll tax was a shambles , but he was a diehard and continued to go to the wall with it . |
| 16 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 17 | And anyway , who needs words ? she told herself blissfully , as they continued to float across the dance-floor together — though Ronni was n't on the dance-floor , she had both feet in heaven . |
| 18 | In parliament the position seemed worse now that the Unionist leaders sat on the government front bench while their followers continued to sit as the opposition . |
| 19 | The three MPs elected in 1987 continued to sit in the Commons as independent social democrats while on July 15 the national committee reversed its earlier decision to suspend the constitution . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | General cargo continued to flow through the port but there was a gradual decline in dock activity . |
| 22 | The necessary appearance of friendship had to be maintained at all times , and patronage continued to flow in the direction of the town of Perth from which the unfortunate Mr. Robinson came . |
| 23 | The party continued to swing to the left , with the prestige of Tony Benn , albeit still a Cabinet member , rising ever higher , and new left-wing figures like Neil Kinnock and Dennis Skinner elected to the constituency section of the NEC . |
| 24 | He continued to stroll among the bundles of spider's-web filaments . |
| 25 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 26 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 27 | Tinny yells continued to come from the earpiece . |
| 28 | Comedies continued to pull in the biggest audiences , followed by thrillers and adventure films . |
| 29 | Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast . |
| 30 | Gerry , born in Armagh , retired in 1987 but continued to write for the Armagh Gazette , broadcast on BBC radio and wrote a book on rural tales entitled And the Band Played On . |