Example sentences of "keep [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't keep apologising . |
| 2 | She telephoned offering to help when my wife was ill and when I said there was nothing she or anyone could do , she did n't keep fussing . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't keep apologizing , darling . |
| 4 | And erm these things used to used to sort of wind the r the the the spring or the leather thong around th top and start it off to spinning you know and then you 'd keep whipping it like that and you could make these things jump into the air , in fact a friend of mine was telling me , we were talking about it the other day . |
| 5 | And then what really bugs those people is seeing me keep catching up with them . |
| 6 | Do n't keep using expressions such as ‘ You know ’ , ‘ Like ’ , ‘ Er … ’ or ‘ Um … ’ — they all make it sound as if you do n't really know what you 're talking about . |
| 7 | Yes , oh aye , aye , just use it for the month Charlie and then , and then in the bucket , do n't keep using it after that . |
| 8 | You 've got ta keep using that sort of imagination to actually keep seizing people 's imagination . |
| 9 | rather than keep using the big tins for the school . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll keep phoning . ’ |
| 11 | does n't matter I 'll , I 'll keep phoning . |
| 12 | Do n't keep coughing , sniffing , and saying er , um , or ‘ you know ’ . |
| 13 | On recounting the tale to a journalist , the victim is asked if he thinks there will ever be an end to this cycle of violence , to which he answers , ‘ No , as long as they keep shitting in our shoes , we 'll keep pissing in their Bovril . ’ |
| 14 | I just seems like something you could just keep building and building forever . |
| 15 | Why did she keep reacting like this , and saying the wrong thing ? |
| 16 | Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits , and , if the business fails , they have n't lost out . |
| 17 | ‘ I must n't keep rattling on like this ! ’ |
| 18 | All through this review , I must keep reminding myself that virtually everything I see before me is in fact a variable . |
| 19 | But colleagues at Armthorpe , Doncaster , will keep reminding her . |
| 20 | I 'll keep reminding you . |
| 21 | Her old self would have seemed like light-years away as well if Mr Know-it-all did n't keep reminding her that it was n't . |
| 22 | Now let's keep reminding you about the time situation , sixty five minutes gone , Shrewsbury have another twenty five minutes in which to hang on here , it 's Shrewsbury three , Blackburn Rovers two , it 's gon na be a nervous evening here for the normally placid Shropshire folk at as that ball is headed forward by and here 's , again in field to , clipped forward for Mike , here comes advancing towards the edge of the penalty area , he 's got ta try and get past the brick wall of , and it 's now who tries to release down the right hand side , he 's got ta get past , he does so , he gets the ball across and that one is cleared importantly by only as far as who tries to hook it back in and that the ball would n't reach him and it would n't reach either and it 's gone out for a goal kick to Shrewsbury . |
| 23 | Only do n't keep accusing me . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do you keep accusing me — ? ’ |
| 25 | Why do you keep accusing me of everything ? ’ |
| 26 | Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear knows his club must keep producing youngsters like two-goal Neill Ardley to enable him to sell big name men and compensate for the low income produced by attendances like the pathetic 3,386 for this game . |
| 27 | Why keep wasting 13 years when Labour can prove the same point in less than half the time . |
| 28 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 29 | It was a slight problem though when the cutter was sharp as it would just keep eating away material , never leaving enough time to generate heat through friction , especially on the softer wood . |
| 30 | Knoydart is a delight , looking mouth-watering from the Glenfinnan tops , and you can keep gazing at it longingly as you walk west from Sgurr Thuilm , round the rim of its heroic corrie towards Sgurr nan Coireachan . |