Example sentences of "[pron] continue [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold their assets — empty sites , empty schools , council houses — in the hope this would permit them to continue to build with the money . |
| 2 | I continued to work in the bank and give private lessons at weekends . |
| 3 | I continued to work in the bank and to give lessons , and did not venture far from the village on my bicycle except on the bank 's business . |
| 4 | I continued to walk round the camp . |
| 5 | The development of a form of representative democracy in the nineteenth century led Dicey to distinguish between legal sovereignty , which continued to reside with the triumvirate of the monarch , Lords , and Commons , and political sovereignty , which he deemed to rest with the electorate . |
| 6 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 7 | During the eighteenth century imported black-and-whites from Jutland became the foundation of the British Friesian , which continued to develop with the help of imports from the Netherlands at intervals and also imports from South Africa ( 1922 ) and Canada ( 1946 onwards ) . |
| 8 | Staffing ratios were generally better in grammar schools than elsewhere , and even the Burnham system favoured ( as it was meant to do ) schools with a larger proportion of older pupils , especially if they were in those sixth forms which continued to stand at the peak of a meritocratic secondary system . |
| 9 | ‘ You know what will happen to you , child , if you continue to disobey your father , ’ he said wearily , ‘ and if you continue to fly in the face of God 's will . ’ |
| 10 | In other words the slope will dip rather than rise while you continue to knit at the centre . |
| 11 | And the spirit and courage of the men who continue to toil in the shadow of the gunman is one way of ensuring that will never happen . |
| 12 | Would you continue to fight for the life of this man who was valued in the community and initially had a strong will to live , even if the odds seemed hopeless ? |
| 13 | She continued to go to the shop and had managed to clear the backlog of work and correspondence . |
| 14 | She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth . |
| 15 | Two arms caught her and drew her down into warmth and security as she continued to cry into the comfort of her husband 's chest . |
| 16 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
| 17 | She continued to stand in the middle of the kitchen , ablaze . |
| 18 | Ronni thought , as she continued to spear through the water . |
| 19 | While the majority of samurai did live as retainers in castle towns , there were some marginal cases who continued to reside in the countryside , often cultivating the land . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm confident we have nothing to fear in the market place provided we continue to aim for the type of quality sheep that we have seen in the best forward at Stoneleigh . ’ |
| 21 | We need to be here now , and we need to ensure that we continue to create in the future . |
| 22 | We continue to invest in the future to make sure we continue to prosper . |
| 23 | The perceptions of the ‘ inner city ’ and of the ‘ underclass ’ which inform government circles today are drawn from the United States , whose cities offer a terrifying picture of our future if we continue to move down the road to a residual , extremely selectivist welfare system . |
| 24 | We continue to help in the meantime , and at a diplomatic level , we are working extremely hard to have Security Council resolutions 706 and 712 implemented . |
| 25 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |
| 26 | As we continued to stare at the sea , racking our brains about how to go for a swim without a costume , our thoughts were answered by a voice from just behind us . |
| 27 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
| 28 | It was altogether typical of him that his unshakeable beliefs should prevent him continuing to serve in the Government once the Anglo-Irish agreement was signed . |
| 29 | Each of these faces absorbs us within their sphere of reflection where , although the formality of their titles and their professional roles in the artist 's life is relaxed , they continue to respond to the person who was in our vantage point at the time , the photographer . |
| 30 | LABOUR 'S proposals for higher income tax and national insurance have faded as a campaign issue over the last two weeks , but they continue to simmer in the background . |