Example sentences of "continued [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies ' sighs of relief , as the sound of their partners ' cars disappeared with distance , indicated that the gentlemen would certainly not be missed , as long as the flood of money engendered by the discovery of oil in Alberta continued to flow so gratifyingly into their joint bank accounts during the boom years of the 1950s . |
| 2 | But Allied and neutral losses continued to mount so steeply that the Germans supposed a further five months would see Great Britain subdued . |
| 3 | The jungles of Stalinvast would swiftly rot into sludge that would form shallow festering inland seas and lakes , where rot continued to feed so that the very air burned planet-wide , searing the whole surface to ashes and bare rock . |
| 4 | Upon the upper surface of this deposit , stalagmitic floors formed , and continued to do so intermittently and in different parts of the cave , until a further inflow of material entered the cave between 80,000 and 30,000 years ago . |
| 5 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 6 | In the bite-shaped hollow , a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards . |
| 7 | When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days . |
| 8 | She marched straight into Tony Richardson 's office in her summer dress and sandals , sorted out Walter 's money to her satisfaction , and continued to do so for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones , nine Merchant-Ivory films and more recently Ballad of the Sad Café , from Carson McCullers 's poignant novel . |
| 9 | In this extract the hero approaches Stonehenge : Some readers have found the human sacrifice image ‘ juvenile ’ , and it is reminiscent of the general level of The Vale of Esthwaite ; but in Wordsworth 's defence one must point out that everybody believed that Stonehenge had been the scene of human sacrifice , and continued to do so until this century ( see , for instance , Hardy 's Tess of the D'Urbervilles ) . |
| 10 | Despite the increase in the number of scholars studying the period , the same preoccupation with art-history and the origins of peoples persisted and continued to do so through the 1960s in studies of pottery ( Myres 1969 ; 1970 ) and metalwork ( Hawkes 1961 ; Hawkes and Dunning 1961 ) . |
| 11 | Immediately after the removal of the propeller , the nose of the aircraft started to rise and continued to do so , to everyone 's amazement , until the tail was almost down to the ground . |
| 12 | The population of Europe , including Russia , had grown steadily since the seventeenth century , and continued to do so after 1880 . |
| 13 | When he died in 1800 , Mrs. Smith took over her husband 's duties and continued to do so for several years , to the satisfaction of the directors . |
| 14 | Rome steadily rejected any compromise upon all three and continued to do so into the twentieth century . |
| 15 | They continued to do so among all kinds of paper until about the early 1950s ( Table 3.1 ) . |
| 16 | Founded in 1920 the gallery exhibited the work of the German Expressionists and continued to do so after its post-war reopening in 1955 . |
| 17 | A Corporal would tell a recruit not to spit on the floor because it was disgusting and because if he continued to do so he would be hit . |
| 18 | The Prime Minister was singing softly to himself when the Collector came in and continued to do so all the time he was there . |
| 19 | Mr. J.S. Southworth , a Governor and Old Stopfordian , and for many years the School 's representative on the Stockport Education Committee , filled the breach during the Bursar 's illness , and continued to do so after the latter 's untimely death on 28th October . |
| 20 | We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been trained to read Shakespeare and Goethe , and continued to do so . |
| 21 | Despite the failure to ratify SALT II both Superpowers adhered to the terms of the treaty ( they continued to do so until 1986 ) and in mid-1982 a new round of talks on strategic weapons began , called START , which aimed not simply to place limits on strategic arms but to reduce them . |
| 22 | She continued to do so throughout the evening , serving him — he was still the only guest — with promptness and civility , being neither short nor teasingly indifferent , preoccupied , it seemed to Hope , and puzzlingly outside his grasp . |
| 23 | He wielded his brush vigorously and continued to do so until Christina and Paul left . |
| 24 | He was practising as a notary public by 1609 , when he witnessed Christopher 's will , and continued to do so until shortly before his death , drawing up wills and other documents . |
| 25 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 26 | They continued to do so . |
| 27 | As they started to walk on that first day the temperature increased dramatically and continued to do so . |
| 28 | On the great northern coalfield they did not work underground after 1780 , although to some extent they continued to do so at some pits in Yorkshire , Lancashire and Cumberland . |
| 29 | Not only men , but women and children too knitted stockings , socks , shirts , gloves , cravats and other fabrics on a frame in their cottage and continued to do so long after steam power had been applied to their craft during the middle years of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | 22 And in his review of O'Keeffe 's 1924 show , critic Virgil Barker had maintained that O'Keeffe 's emotions were balanced by her intellect : ‘ Miss O'Keeffe 's pictures embody intelligent passionateness. ’ 23 But from the beginning , most critics had responded to her art ( and continued to do so ) primarily in agreement with the position maintained by the Stieglitz circle , a position restated without equivocation by Rosenfeld in 1924 , when he wrote that O'Keeffe was ‘ one who shows no traces of intellectualisation and has a mind born of profoundest feeling . ’ |