Example sentences of "kept on [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Kevin kept on meeting old friends . |
2 | and I still kept on making Freudian slips — |
3 | Erm , your , I think it was Dwayne or was it , it 's either Dwayne , or erm , er Bob knocked a glass over , and er , Jane was like erm , trying to like , she was like going Edward move away , I 'm trying to sh I 'm trying , look , I 'm trying to stop people dancing round here , and like , these , all this , this er , glass on the floor , right , Jane was standing there going like this , dancing round all this glass , and like she was going like this , and everyone that walked past , she was going , broken glass and she was saying , and she was , she kept on going broken glass , they done it . |
4 | But the third time they had turned it up so it kept on going big waves so I I missed the steps so the erm one of the lifeguards |
5 | This was a mistaken choice , because the Adour was actually a bad river , which kept on finding different ways out into the Atlantic and abandoning Bayonne altogether . |
6 | I kept on saying these pictures are a bit too bright . |
7 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |