Example sentences of "kept [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire kept flashing in the cave , dazzling her , and it was getting harder and harder to think clearly . |
| 2 | When I sold CBS the video I kept apologising for the movement because it was so shaky . |
| 3 | The overweight people in this experiment , however , kept eating at the same fast pace throughout the meal . |
| 4 | She did n't actually say , ‘ Please hurry up , oh please hurry up , ’ but she might just as well have done : her mouth twitched as if she were muttering it inwardly , her eyes kept darting to the clock on the mantelpiece and there were red , nervous spots on her cheeks . |
| 5 | But Fen seemed quite happy , relaxing over his coffee which he kept replenishing from the large pot he had ordered , exchanging remarks with the landlord which revealed that he was a regular customer here . |
| 6 | you jus he kept walking into the doors . |
| 7 | The Ruff-stuff 's tracks swept off to the right so we kept walking to the left . |
| 8 | You remember in France , the er they made you where we kept walking round the table and er she sa , anyway said er fish soup ? |
| 9 | Knocking ‘ I kept knocking on the boards but no one took any notice . ’ |
| 10 | She quickly learned to swim but because of her small size had some initial problems with buoyancy and kept bobbing to the surface like a cork ! |
| 11 | Concluding the entry on Knock , the Curate next confided to his diary the tale of Father Vianney , a priest persecuted by the devil , who kept banging on the walls and throwing furniture around . |
| 12 | ‘ Alicia kept banging on the door saying it was John Major 's office but , of course , I did n't believe her . |
| 13 | He was much heavier than he looked and the chair kept banging against the rock . |
| 14 | He kept leaping into the darkroom , created for the Photographic Society on the first floor , and claiming that he had heard the sound of munching . |
| 15 | The matey use of Blanche 's name struck a false note with Dexter , like interviewees he had seen on chat shows who kept tossing in the name of the host every thirty seconds to make it appear they were bosom pals . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , she kept returning to the nest , and one morning I had a sudden feeling that she was about to hatch something , after all . |
| 17 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 18 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 19 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 20 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 21 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 22 | He closed his mind for a silent prayer , but his thoughts kept returning to the danger that he and the woman now faced . |
| 23 | A never-ending stream of people kept climbing over the sides and lowering themselves and their tremendous baggage into the sea of bodies . |
| 24 | They knew that physically Rose could do much more than she was willing to try , so they kept searching for the key that would restore her will to live without being , unnecessarily , a burden on others . |
| 25 | She kept looking at the wallscreen with distrust . |
| 26 | Instead , he just kept looking at the American ambassador with what Sullivan describes as 'soulful eyes " . |
| 27 | " Do n't be sorry , " he said , " I quite enjoyed it , " She looked up briefly then , smiling uncertainly , as though she did n't believe him , He licked his lips , moved forward , put one hand out and touched hers where it gripped the glass , She kept looking at the empty glass avoiding his face . |
| 28 | She kept looking at the telephone beside her bed , willing it to ring , dithering . |
| 29 | He kept looking along the lines of men beside him . |
| 30 | I kept looking in the mirror but not , you understand , for traffic . |