Example sentences of "kept [v-ing] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 2 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 3 | He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ? |
| 4 | I think it was Christy we were playing with and he kept landing his second shots close . |
| 5 | He kept pulling his own and Viola 's photographs from his pocket to check details . |
| 6 | Cold tremors of fear kept shaking his whole body . |
| 7 | He kept telling his gentle mother , both before and after the death ( in 1911 ) of his more authoritarian and rabbinical father ( the first Lord Swaythling ) , that he could not marry a Jewess because he found them so unattractive . |