Example sentences of "[pron] kept [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the morning I kept pushing it back again . |
| 2 | On the first one , I was making the record and I broke a string on my Firebird and could n't be bothered changing strings , and so I plugged the Lazer in and it sounded so good that I kept using it . |
| 3 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 4 | And I was here all on my own , I kept singing it ! |
| 5 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 6 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 7 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 8 | I had mine in kitchen and I kept knocking it over every time I opened up |
| 9 | it sort of played about two or three minutes of music and then it went crrrkkkkkk for a few minutes , that 's why I kept hitting it . |
| 10 | That 's cos I kept hitting it , bloody . |
| 11 | I kept mixing it up with the florin , |
| 12 | That 's why I kept putting it off to go to the doctor to get help 'cos I thought that , with me having kids , he would automatically ring the social services and tell them . |
| 13 | It made the pain worse , but I kept hugging it , holding it . |
| 14 | Rachel felt breathless , said softly , ‘ But I believed the stuff about Swift because you kept throwing it at me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She kept repeating it over and and over again like a robot . ’ |
| 16 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 17 | A suspicion kept niggling at the back of her mind , but she kept pushing it away as more than she could deal with . |
| 18 | I do n't know how long she kept using it ( or more precisely , how long it kept using her ) , but surely up to the day when she noticed her sister , younger by eight years , tossing up her arm while saying good-bye to a girlfriend . |
| 19 | She was sure it would get Edouard and his wife into trouble , and she kept saying it was only for another day or two . ’ |
| 20 | I like this girl , cos she 's Welsh , just , I ca n't do her accent , but she kept saying it several times , he was getting really pissed off with her . |
| 21 | You get Ann , senile dementia , they had to get the taps off the gas fire because she kept turning it on and off without it being lit again , found wandering in her nightclothes , injustice , and then we found Eileen , who was in an upstairs room , yes she enjoyed that life for about five years , great council house then she had an accident and then because she could n't re-house her , she was a virtual prisoner inside her own home that she 'd made up . |
| 22 | And she kept pulling it and making the hole go . |
| 23 | When he announced he would retire from the game at the end of Biarritz 's run in the Championship it was the signal for scores of journalists to gather at each match to report on his ‘ funeral ’ … but we kept postponing it ’ . |
| 24 | but if I 'd have give it , had to give them some water they 'd have done much better but I , like everybody else we kept hoping it were gon na rain , but ! |
| 25 | Our passing was n't up to their standard ( ! ) and we kept giving it away too often . |
| 26 | That 's why we kept turning it down . |
| 27 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 28 | It kept promising it was going to explode , and then one morning I came out of the house it was just lying there like a dinosaur hulk . ’ |
| 29 | And he kept thinking it was twenty . |
| 30 | He kept gulping it down till he made himself ill ; |