Example sentences of "[noun] continue [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Ronni continued to ponder for a moment , Jeff leaned across the table . |
| 2 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 3 | He and the housekeeper continued to converse for a few minutes and finally he said , ‘ Very well , Mrs Pettifer , sherry at six . ’ |
| 4 | At many cultural levels the old Petersburg continued to prevail for a while over Moscow in many informal , non-governmental ways , as will be noted in a later chapter . |
| 5 | Tesfaye Gebre Kidan continued to appeal for a ceasefire and to impress on foreign ambassadors his willingness to negotiate with the rebels . |
| 6 | Than Tun continued to call for a national government but made it clear that armed struggle was , for the present , not envisaged . |
| 7 | Although the gas industry retained the larger market share for cooking overall , more than a quarter of consumers had electric cookers by 1958 and electricity for cooking continued to account for a fifth of domestic electricity sales . |
| 8 | Although the Scottish Division defeated re-affiliation by 88 votes to 6 at its Conference in February 1938 the MPs continued to press for a return to the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Throughout all this period the SPD and FPD continued to argue for a less exclusively western orientation , dusting off the old chestnut about Germany 's ‘ third way ’ which had been so disastrous in 1918 . |