Example sentences of "keep [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , this will keep coming up throughout the er , products . |
| 2 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 3 | ‘ He keeps going on about the murder . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone keeps going on about the Animal Farm |
| 5 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 6 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
| 7 | It 's a circular route all the time , it keeps going back to the town centre |
| 8 | However , despite the best efforts of the BBC and other giant mass publishing houses to clog the best-seller lists with the epitome of semi-literate publishing , literacy keeps breaking through in the most unlikely places , and nearly always from American rather than British programmes . |
| 9 | Conversation is like playing tennis with a ball made of Krazy Putty , that keeps coming back over the net in a different shape . |
| 10 | And yet , while God doing everything for Sonya remains shielded by her faith , the green shawl keeps cropping up through the novel for all to see . |
| 11 | Do you know as you come in to Salisbury and you have to keep going on with the traffic , then it leads up to the bridge where the wa , where the river is . |
| 12 | You 've just got to keep doubling up until the time is right . |
| 13 | They keep landing up in the middle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 16 | Charles kept looking round for the room 's occupant . |
| 17 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 18 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 19 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 20 | Auntie Jane kept going on about the violence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more . |
| 23 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 24 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 25 | Oh well I 'll have to try , try keep going down to the courses down to Toshiba . |
| 26 | Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing . |
| 27 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 28 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 29 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 30 | The Government tried to improve the water shortage situation by enlarging pipes carrying rainwater down to the sea , but as the tides rose fish entered the pipes and kept popping out into the roadway ! |