Example sentences of "[conj] continued [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |
| 2 | Still holding her , he raised his voice again and continued calling into the gathering smoke . |
| 3 | Two families decided to stay put and continued to live alongside the squalor . |
| 4 | He rejoiced in the name of Blossom , and continued to live in the converted station . |
| 5 | The first ones seem to have lived in the sea , but by the Silurian the jawless ( Agnathan ) fish were a prominent component of fresh- and brackish-water sites in many areas of the world , and continued to diversify into the Devonian period . |
| 6 | Defeated for the deputy party leadership at the Congress , Ligachev remained an open and vocal exponent of ‘ socialist perestroika ’ and continued to insist upon the priority of planning and party dominance . |
| 7 | After qualifying Margaret opened her own school of dancing in Hove and continued to teach until the birth of her two children ; music and dance have continued to play a major part throughout her life . |
| 8 | After the mid-1970s , however , the proportion of local spending funded by central grants fell sharply , and continued to fall into the 1980s . |
| 9 | The incidence of crowd misbehaviour reached a high point before the First World War , fell between the two World Wars , and continued to fall until the late-1950s , since when it continued to increase quite rapidly ( Dunning et al. , 1982 ; 1984 ) . |
| 10 | He knows that the poll tax was a shambles , but he was a diehard and continued to go to the wall with it . |
| 11 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 12 | Spencer ignored Emily 's words and continued to gaze at the girl who had paused near the doorway . |
| 13 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 14 | The statement is truer of lines than individual stations since average journey lengths are much longer , and continued to increase during the eighties . |
| 15 | Mr Major just grinned and continued talking to the children , from Dulwich College , south London . |
| 16 | Macgregor 's unit returned to mapping in northeast Scotland and continued to work in the Central Coalfield . |
| 17 | Fiver said nothing and continued to stare over the field . |
| 18 | He shook his head and continued to stare at the old man , but there was pleading in his voice now . |
| 19 | He raised his right hand to silence her and continued to stare at the tabletop before him , head cocked to one side . |
| 20 | But he lived another seven years and continued working to the end . |
| 21 | ‘ All right , all right , ’ said Tom , and continued to walk up the road with Charlie still shouting after them . |
| 22 | The post-war fall in food prices , together with the larger cohorts seeking work , depressed agricultural wages , but new average real wage levels were dominated by industrial employment and continued to rise until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The USA suspended US$320,000,000 in aid but continued to assist in the government 's anti-drugs campaign . |
| 24 | Gerry , born in Armagh , retired in 1987 but continued to write for the Armagh Gazette , broadcast on BBC radio and wrote a book on rural tales entitled And the Band Played On . |
| 25 | She said nothing to this but continued to stand in the doorway . |
| 26 | but continued to work within the Party until the end of November 1936 . |
| 27 | In order to verify his electrical recording findings , Thompson made lesions in the cerebellums of animals that had learned the conditioned eyeblink response , Rabbits that learned with their left eye and had lesions made to the left half of their cerebellum no longer blinked when they heard the tone but continued to blink to the puff of air . |