Example sentences of "[pron] continued [to-vb] in 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 | She continued to stand in the middle of the kitchen , ablaze . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He continued to teach in the university until his wife died , when he resumed his Fellowship and took Orders . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While she drank his hot , sweet tea , he continued to look in the drawer , picking over its contents and clicking his tongue . |
| 8 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 9 | If we group together all the industries that were predominantly in public ownership on the departure of the Labour government , we find that their total employment was thrown into decline in the North from 1978 to 1981 , but that it continued to grow in the South . |