Example sentences of "continued [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , as detectives continued to search the area around the flat , Janice refused to answer reporters ' questions . |
| 2 | And he continued to drive a battered 1979 pick-up truck , its upholstery chewed to pieces by his beloved hunting dogs . |
| 3 | Again , nothing was done , though heartrending stories of shipwrecks and even of cannibalism on crippled vessels continued to assail the public . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | In the Celtic Church , the Old Testament continued to enjoy a status equal to the New . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Falcon 20 continued to enjoy a considerable success . |
| 7 | Although Clinton continued to enjoy a consistent lead in the opinion polls , by the end of October the gap between the two candidates appeared to have closed sufficiently to be causing some alarm in the Democratic camp . |
| 8 | However , even when in debt , he continued to enjoy an extravagant lifestyle . |
| 9 | Naturally the coach roads were the worst affected , while off the beaten track Green and no doubt others , continued to enjoy the former hospitality and generosity . |
| 10 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 11 | But apart from hunting , he seems to have left the business of government to his earls , although he continued to enjoy the society of churchmen , especially of foreign churchmen , gave his heart to the building of Westminster Abbey , engaged in the royal works of mercy , stood meekly through divine office and mass , and — a special note of conscientiousness — ‘ at these times , unless he was addressed , he rarely spoke to anyone ’ . |
| 12 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 specifically excluded all women from the local borough franchise , but single women continued to enjoy the vote and even the right to be elected in many parishes and important local bodies , such as the Poor Law Guardians , associated with them ( Hollis 1987 ) . |
| 13 | Nothing came of this particular project , not at least for many years , and Clare continued to enjoy the orchises of Royce Wood undisturbed . |
| 14 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 15 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 16 | Commentators noted that Hekmatyar continued to enjoy the support of the Pakistan fundamentalist religious party , Jammat-i-Islami . |
| 17 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 18 | As a result BRAC abandoned the rice-salt solution and continued to promote the lobon-gur solution . |
| 19 | The Lieutenant had once leapt fully clothed into a river , demonstrating to a casual enquirer the purpose of a Royal Engineer 's lifejacket as he continued building a bridge while swimming fully armed among the pontoons . |
| 20 | The considerable amount of water saved was now , in effect , available southward for the Braunston stretch ( itself a summit ) , where there was a perennial water shortage , for this canal continued to carry a large through traffic from the Birmingham area . |
| 21 | He continued to carry the hat rather than wear it . |
| 22 | Outdoors , he continued to carry the picture while walking bipedally , and he headed directly for the gorilla quarters which were located near the adult-ape house on a hill behind the language lab . |
| 23 | The cap badge continued using the crest motif with the motto : Virtutis Fortuna Comes ( ‘ fortune favours the brave ’ ) — all in white metal above a scroll inscribed : THE WEST RIDING . |
| 24 | The Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) had initially predicted that the incidence of BSE would start to fall by the end of 1992 , but , it says , some farmers continued using the feed after the introduction of the ban . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jean remained at the hostel and continued to attend the Jules Thorn Unit . |
| 27 | Eliot continued to see the danger of London reduced to a waste land where ( with a momentary glance at Gerontion 's coughing goat ) debris lies |
| 28 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 29 | The Tamil secessionist struggle continued to overshadow the political scene . |
| 30 | Nor is there any evidence that Saebbi , king of the eastern Saxons , continued to acknowledge the overlordship of the Mercian ruler . |