Example sentences of "[pron] continued [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I continued to work in the bank and give private lessons at weekends . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I continued to walk round the camp . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She continued to go to the shop and had managed to clear the backlog of work and correspondence . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | She continued to stand at the edge of the plateau . |
12 | She continued to stand in the middle of the kitchen , ablaze . |
13 | Ronni thought , as she continued to spear through the water . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
17 | They continued to scrabble on the floor until all the spilt items had been retrieved . |
18 | The links predated the Francoist regime ; the army had long been responsible for the training of footplate , traffic and other staff who entered RENFE through military service ( as they continued to do after the restoration of democracy ) . |
19 | And anyway , who needs words ? she told herself blissfully , as they continued to float across the dance-floor together — though Ronni was n't on the dance-floor , she had both feet in heaven . |
20 | Silas 's scowl remained on his face as they continued to walk along the track . |
21 | Bitterly aware of a deep flush spreading over her cheeks , Laura closed her eyes for a moment as they continued to revolve around the dance-floor . |
22 | He continued to teach in the university until his wife died , when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders . |
23 | Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris . |
24 | The actor Esmond Knight who was an RNVR officer in the new battleship Prince of Wales gave a dramatic account of the arrival of the Bismarck 's salvo that had blinded him ( though he continued to act after the war and performed in The Red Shoes with Moira ) . |
25 | Beckoning Robert to a seat , he continued to talk into the mouthpiece about the school , about its playing-fields , its concert hall and several other items that , so far at any rate , existed only in his imagination . |
26 | He continued to speculate on the subject , and wrote letters to various journals , but seems to have done little further practical work until 1849 , when a glider large enough to carry a small boy was launched in free flight at Brompton . |
27 | As the teacher put the collar on Sherman he continued to point at the picture and bark very loudly . |
28 | During this time he continued to work on the design of docks and harbours in the Isle of Man , the river Mersey , and Cardiff , as well as many of the Trinity House lighthouses . |
29 | He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’ |
30 | He continued to cooperate in the exchange of books , plants and seeds and he contributed specimens from Chelsea for Linnaeus 's son , who was forming an ambitious herbarium . |