Example sentences of "continued [to-vb] the " 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 | Again , nothing was done , though heartrending stories of shipwrecks and even of cannibalism on crippled vessels continued to assail the public . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took about nine days for them completely to stop eating green eggs , but they continued to enjoy the ordinary white egg . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Nothing came of this particular project , not at least for many years , and Clare continued to enjoy the orchises of Royce Wood undisturbed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For a few moments more Theodora continued to enjoy the spectacle of gulls and swallows swooping and idling on the warm air . |
| 11 | Commentators noted that Hekmatyar continued to enjoy the support of the Pakistan fundamentalist religious party , Jammat-i-Islami . |
| 12 | As a result BRAC abandoned the rice-salt solution and continued to promote the lobon-gur solution . |
| 13 | He continued to carry the hat rather than wear it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jean remained at the hostel and continued to attend the Jules Thorn Unit . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Tamil secessionist struggle continued to overshadow the political scene . |
| 20 | Nor is there any evidence that Saebbi , king of the eastern Saxons , continued to acknowledge the overlordship of the Mercian ruler . |
| 21 | Throughout the 1950s newspapers continued to report the complaints of West Bank traders at the economic stagnation which resulted . |
| 22 | Muddiman continued to report the doings of both Monck and the Rumpers until they quarrelled , whereupon he used his papers to support the former . |
| 23 | Similarly , social policy continued to emphasise the importance of motherhood and the family , even though women had begun to enter production industry in large numbers during the war , and despite a post-war increase in the numbers of married women doing paid work . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind later criticisms of this work ( by , for example , Alihan ) arguing that the Chicago sociologists never made clear which elements of social behaviour were cultural and which biotic , it is important to emphasise that , in line with Durkheim , Sumner and other earlier social theorists , Park and his colleagues continued to emphasise the close relationships between these two forms of explanation . |
| 25 | Bevin and Dalton felt that Franco 's invasion of Spain with his fascist forces justified rearmament , while Cripps and the Socialist League continued to support the ‘ united front ’ campaign since the National government was considered to be untrustworthy . |
| 26 | Brokers ' upgrades of RMC , in the light of its figures earlier in the week , continued to support the shares , up another 15 at 645p . |
| 27 | When Khrushchev visited President Eisenhower in the United States of America , the Chinese authorities became furious , and denounced Khrushchev , so he cut off all military and economic aid to China , although he continued to support the Communist leader of Cuba , Fidel Castro . |
| 28 | Some believed this was entirely possible , but continued to support the family by writing letters denouncing the procedures carried out by Orkney Islands Council . |
| 29 | He continued to support the Tories through the very difficult war years , and after 1815 seems to have felt that any popular demonstration or movement towards parliamentary reform would be the prelude to an English Revolution which would , in turn , throw up a ‘ Napoleon ’ to tyrannize over the British people . |
| 30 | The project staff continued to support the 1:50 000 geological mapping programme of the Jordan Natural Resource Authority ( NRA ) by providing professional supervision , advice and editing . |