Example sentences of "kept [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere . |
| 2 | I thought it funny how I kept seeing dead cows but no live ones . |
| 3 | I kept seeing this leer of his , the leer of a wary yokel , reflected in the numerous little mirrors set around Herta 's marriage crown ( traditional : to ward off evil spirits , and so on ) . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it was a sublimely happy evening , although , as we kept reminding each other , ‘ nothing was settled yet ’ . |
| 5 | The woman fell silent , though she kept darting angry glances at Yussuf . |
| 6 | They kept ordering more brandy and all seemed genuinely upset . |
| 7 | Barbie said she 'd rather have a cigarette anyway and gave them back to us , but we could n't break any of them off , so we kept passing this lump backwards and forwards , sucking it and grinding little chunks off it , till we got fed up with it and chucked it on the floor . |
| 8 | They kept going all day and most of the night , passing the cathedral city of Melchester and reaching open land . |
| 9 | He did n't laugh when I kept scoring those ones did we now ? |
| 10 | Yeah we we kee we kept getting twenty Ps today . |
| 11 | I kept getting different answers . |
| 12 | And during all this time I kept getting flashing pictures in my mind of Chantal , like a magic lantern slide . |
| 13 | It sounded okay but we kept getting these fumes . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I kept getting these phone-calls . ’ |
| 15 | He afterwards kept telephoning other Harvard dealers , pointing out that he could say what he wanted on the phone in his new place of employment as the calls were unrecorded . |
| 16 | Well twenty years ago I was on programmes like this , saying that doctors who said that Valium and the other tranquillizers were perfectly safe were talking rubbish and that there was every possibility that there would be problems found in the future , if we kept prescribing these drugs for vast numbers of people . |
| 17 | I kept asking silly questions and , trying to get a picture of the poor demented maid , asked how old she was . |
| 18 | I was the awkward one who kept asking difficult questions , such as , Why is n't Leo in the Forces ? and What war work do Helen and Dora do ? |
| 19 | Well I used to share a , share this flat with my mate and erm you know , she got a bit out of hand , she kept bringing all these people home and she kept having these parties and it was really difficult for me to study cos I used to go well I still try to go to college , but erm you know , it was really hard for me to study and made my life really , really difficult ! |
| 20 | I kept starting new regimes , then finding I could n't give them up . |
| 21 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 22 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 23 | He should have finished at university long ago , but he kept taking extra courses , changing subjects and things . |
| 24 | I kept taking quick glances but you always looked inscrutable . |
| 25 | We were disliked because of things that had happened in the past and we did n't need any motivation when we kept hearing that sort of talk . |
| 26 | The pack kept winning good ball for Colchester but they were unable to do much with it and the only other score of the half was a penalty by Hepburn . |
| 27 | Macca kept playing brilliant balls to the wings , especially to Wallace and Kelly ( who improves every game , is bionic and will be a star ) . |
| 28 | The other kept showing carcinoid infiltrationin repeated specimens . |
| 29 | I kept putting more water in and it got so full . |
| 30 | Endill kept finding empty bottles around the house . |