Example sentences of "[pron] continued [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To tell the truth , I continued to use the stick for longer than was strictly necessary . |
| 2 | However , I continued to work the whole of this one section quite thoroughly in order to dismiss it or not ( depending on what was found ) . |
| 3 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Minister of Education and Culture Vladimir Pavletic had also resigned on April 10 , following criticism from parliamentary deputies over schoolbooks which continued to name the mother country as Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | It rose and fell in time with the drums and gongs which continued to fill the hut with their relentless clamour . |
| 6 | The Trotskyists and pacifist groups which continued to oppose the war only had the power to attract Left support between late 1939 and 1941 . |
| 7 | In local elections held in Lower Saxony on Oct. 6 the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) share of the vote dropped from 46 per cent to 43.1 per cent while the SPD , which continued to control the Land government in conjunction with the Greens [ see pp. 37676 ] , won 40.2 per cent of the vote ( down from 40.5 per cent in 1986 ) . |
| 8 | Many Democrats argued the need to " compensate " for the centuries of white male dominance , and , in so doing , to address the many " disguised " job barriers which continued to hamper the progress of minorities within the labour market . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) Nonetheless the several expressions of refusal to the staff nurse , to Dr. F. , to the midwife , refusals maintained in the presence of the father and her boyfriend , whom I accept remained unaware that she had actually signed a form of refusal , were valid refusals which bound and which continued to bind the hospital . |
| 10 | While revolutionaries may condemn such temporizing , this was an orientation which continued to inform the approach of most peace activists , including socialist ones , down to the present day . |
| 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 | She continued to stroke the animal , but her movements had become less languid . |
| 13 | She continued to have the pain and was referred back four years later to a different surgeon who did a normal barium meal and barium enema . |
| 14 | She continued to have the pain and a repeat barium meal four years later was normal . |
| 15 | By law , Paul should have received the directorship of the theatre and the rest of Dinah 's inheritance ; but as things stood , it was impossible , and she continued to administer the estate . |
| 16 | And she continued to adjust the flower arrangement . |
| 17 | Even after her resignation , she continued to petition the district officer concerning injustices and disputes , particularly on behalf of the women for whose rights she continually campaigned . |
| 18 | They all turned round , all but Tabitha , who continued to watch the descent of the net on a bow monitor , a satisfied expression on her face . |
| 19 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 20 | It would be a brave man who would accuse Aitken of cheating on his present club to protect his first senior team , however , and a foolish one who continued to harbour the notion after watching his display of honest professionalism . |
| 21 | On July 11 Jansen left Iraq after delegating her responsibilities to another US national , Mark Silver , who continued to maintain the team 's vigil outside the Ministry of Agriculture ( until July 22 , when the team withdrew in fear of physical reprisals from anti-US and anti-UN demonstrators ) . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | During 1992 we continued to improve the performance of both staff and volunteers in tackling planning and policy issues . |
| 24 | We continued to follow the Sokol river up the Velky Sokol into the heart of the national park . |
| 25 | We continued to encourage the Forestry Commission to assemble the building blocks on which a new environmentally-led approach to forestry can be based . |
| 26 | The younger policeman shuffled in embarrassment under my glassy gaze as the elder one continued to recite the report from a notebook in his mind . |
| 27 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 28 | Corr says she would not have reordered the books if they continued to include the word nigger . |
| 29 | Even in the later stages of this game they continued to move the ball around despite circumstances requiring more solid one-man drives backed by dependable kicking . |
| 30 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |