Example sentences of "[pers pn] kept [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 2 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 3 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 4 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 5 | she kept running out of the room and being sick and everything so I thought |
| 6 | Why do you think these mentions of him kept cropping up over the years ? |
| 7 | They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more . |
| 8 | Like rejected lovers returning to a trysting place , they kept coming back to the areas surrounding the station . |
| 9 | Beside her , Ray Plummer was struggling to wind spaghetti around his fork but it kept falling back into the dish . |
| 10 | He carried a pale bone which he kept throwing out into the dune for the terrier to retrieve . |
| 11 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 12 | He kept running up to the cross-street turned right back towards M slowing but glancing at his watch to excuse a half-jog |