Example sentences of "[conj] i keep [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or I keep getting up . |
| 2 | Well like that new advert for the Rover he says do n't , I keep thinking my back my back tailgate 's flapping or I keep hearing , you keep hearing creaking do n't you ? |
| 3 | Although I keep pulling it up and throwing it in the dustbin , it keeps coming back . |
| 4 | You paying me in 'and , and Dennis is paying me in 'and and I 'll a er , thousand pound a week , the way that I keep getting these job offers . |
| 5 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 6 | Well there 's that green and grey thing that I keep passing onto |
| 7 | So today I 'm going to talk about notions of structure or about sentence structure and logical form , so point one a reminder something that I keep saying , knowledge of language is knowledge of a bod a body of rules that assign phonological , syntactic and semantic properties to words and sentences . |
| 8 | You see there 's a general principle there is quite a lot of information in that cupboard that I keep saying 's there , have a look and as we get stuff |
| 9 | I think regarding the number of people who are in prison , whether on remand or otherwise , erm , reminds me of something that that I keep noticing , either hear it on the radio or in the paper . |
| 10 | The graphics on this game are so good that I kept trying to push the buttons on the screen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ground was lumpy and bumpy and there was a thistle somewhere that I kept rolling over on to , but I did n't care , I was helpless , and so was he . |
| 13 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 14 | staying open , I ai n't going , I ca n't handle it I said I just wan na get out , it was really like a sentence I just could n't stand it of course I laughed , me and Elaine went to the meeting same place , same wall and I kept looking at her and we brought you in here to say thanks , and Elaine looked at me and I looked at her and I said well if that 's all he 's got ta say I said I 'm not , I , what did I say to Elaine ? |
| 15 | I had a little Fender lap-steel guitar , and I 'd heard bottleneck players and blues players and I kept trying to play like that and I just could n't figure it out . |
| 16 | No we no she 'd got out the pool you see , she was I did n't recognize her , she said oh it looks like all the family 's here and I was only talking to Evelyn and , and I kept trying to place her and it was only when she said oh Rebecca was born a month after cos she 's died her hair a different colour , I did n't , just did n't recognize her at all . |
| 17 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 18 | And I kept thinking , ‘ What 's wrong with this thing ? ’ |
| 19 | it was a cro , I tell you what , we were playing something tonight , I think it was the last thing before you stopped , and I kept thinking any minute now it 's gon na be Somewhere Over the Rainbow |
| 20 | Yeah , and I kept thinking ooh |
| 21 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 22 | And I kept telling him , yeah , Oliver , but the day that , you know , some Nicaraguan unity group appears and it 's evident that it 's got everybody in it … that 's the day I 'll begin to believe that this thing has a future . |
| 23 | ‘ We walked and walked … and I kept dropping hints , but there was never once a response from the Queen . |
| 24 | I had nowhere to go and I kept getting thrown out of places . |
| 25 | There were far too many of us and I kept getting depression and that , with being pregnant . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Willa Cather 's My Antonia , which along with her other novels I was absorbing with great delight at this period , provided another couple with whom to identify , Antonia and Jim Burden , and I kept switching sides with these characters also . |
| 28 | And I kept saying , I do n't want to hear about it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 30 | ‘ And I kept saying your name . ’ |