Example sentences of "continued [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , as detectives continued to search the area around the flat , Janice refused to answer reporters ' questions . |
| 2 | Again , nothing was done , though heartrending stories of shipwrecks and even of cannibalism on crippled vessels continued to assail the public . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 4 | Commentators noted that Hekmatyar continued to enjoy the support of the Pakistan fundamentalist religious party , Jammat-i-Islami . |
| 5 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 6 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 7 | But apart from hunting , he seems to have left the business of government to his earls , although he continued to enjoy the society of churchmen , especially of foreign churchmen , gave his heart to the building of Westminster Abbey , engaged in the royal works of mercy , stood meekly through divine office and mass , and — a special note of conscientiousness — ‘ at these times , unless he was addressed , he rarely spoke to anyone ’ . |
| 8 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 specifically excluded all women from the local borough franchise , but single women continued to enjoy the vote and even the right to be elected in many parishes and important local bodies , such as the Poor Law Guardians , associated with them ( Hollis 1987 ) . |
| 9 | He continued to carry the hat rather than wear it . |
| 10 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 11 | She continued to attend the unit as an out-patient for more than six months , when the therapists felt they could not make any further progress . |
| 12 | Eliot continued to see the danger of London reduced to a waste land where ( with a momentary glance at Gerontion 's coughing goat ) debris lies |
| 13 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 14 | Nor is there any evidence that Saebbi , king of the eastern Saxons , continued to acknowledge the overlordship of the Mercian ruler . |
| 15 | Similarly , social policy continued to emphasise the importance of motherhood and the family , even though women had begun to enter production industry in large numbers during the war , and despite a post-war increase in the numbers of married women doing paid work . |
| 16 | When Sir George died unexpectedly Charles gave his son the title of Lord Baltimore and continued to support the scheme . |
| 17 | According to foreign news reports the split was essentially over whether the south should secede ; the dissident group favoured an independent black state , while Garang and his loyalists continued to support the goal of a united , secular Sudan . |
| 18 | Before the decision on its abolition , the ILEA had already virtually abandoned the recommendations of The Fish Report , although some of the topic papers continued to support the idea of integration in general , unspecified ways . |
| 19 | Fortunately for Adenauer enough FDP members continued to support the coalition after February 1956 ( and eventually joined the CDU ) that it survived in office . |
| 20 | Some believed this was entirely possible , but continued to support the family by writing letters denouncing the procedures carried out by Orkney Islands Council . |
| 21 | Christianity however , continued to uphold the doctrine of the one ‘ god ’ , creator of the universe . |
| 22 | Both government and landlords continued to uphold the village commune as a convenient instrument for apportioning tax , labour dues , and , in many areas , allotments of land . |
| 23 | The Committee continued to monitor the development of CPD and sought more resources to enable the regions to offer a service to members . |
| 24 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 25 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 26 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 27 | The Night Goblins continued to harass the Dwarf column all the way to the Citadel , but thanks to their heavy armour and natural toughness there were few more casualties . |
| 28 | The government continued to implement the policy of radical economic reform initiated in 1987 . |
| 29 | And she continued to adjust the flower arrangement . |
| 30 | The wind and rain ceased over the next two days , but giant waves of up to fifteen feet continued to batter the shoreline , flooding and wrecking many homes . |