Example sentences of "and they keep [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 2 | And they kept calling me ‘ love ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 4 | They do n't know any songs all the way through , and they kept stopping . |
| 5 | Preston had more or less given up being a New Man since Carla — it was so difficult to get it right all the time and they kept moving the goalposts — but he still liked to make the right noises . |
| 6 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 7 | The party was the quietest you could imagine and they kept complaining that we were making too much noise . |
| 8 | I could see the socks inside the trainers — they were Dayglo green , the sort that used to be in fashion years ago — and they kept walking towards me . |
| 9 | I then found another and another , and they kept coming up until I had recovered twenty-two of them in all . |
| 10 | And they kept coming and coming to me just the same . |
| 11 | We saw the Luftwaffe in full strength that day and they kept hitting us with all they had . |
| 12 | And they hung about and hung about and then they came across here , looked at the board and they kept turning round and looking where I was . |
| 13 | and they kept asking us to print more . |
| 14 | And they keep building them . |
| 15 | And they keep telling me it 's cheaper to buy it . |
| 16 | And I mean I , I find some clients are really lucky , you know they 've got a few fiddly bits of issues and they keep getting fifty pounds here and fifty pounds there , |
| 17 | And of course the erm , those sort with all the redden in them , muddly blue flames and they keep spitting and given pretty , pretty pictures , it 's gorgeous . |
| 18 | By then Keenan and me are pretty drunk ; and they keep stealing our bottle from the dressing room , so we 'd go across the street and get another jug . |
| 19 | There 's footmark , footpaths all over the heath you know , where people can walk , and they keep sticking sticks in the heath now , but they knock 'em down . |
| 20 | Erm the Labour Party is absolutely furious that unemployment goes down in this country and they keep trying to say to the public that it 's all hooey and , and , and , and the figures are distorted etc. , etc. , The fact is unemployment is going down , we are overcoming the recession , er faster than any other member of the er European Community or the European union as it 's now concerned and , and these are the facts but having said all that , we on this side er certainly support a continuing strategy whether we 'll er have to continue spending money at this level , er I do n't know , hopefully er the , the recession will be overcome and the spending can be reduced , but the strategy we believe . |
| 21 | and er , you see , and I can still do it because I know N D N D N D and they keep answering that . |
| 22 | because again as adults we realize that if every we ask a question to the trainer you 're asking questions to him and they keep answering them , what does it mean we can do as trainees ? |
| 23 | And they keep giving her a courtesy car so I should think so after spending twenty one grand ! |
| 24 | Girls , mind you , but they 're regular tearaways and Mrs Henley , she had three last week and they keep runnin' away . |
| 25 | erm and er in the meantime , we had some lino down on the kitchen last year and they keep saying they 're going to send a new one and they have n't and they have n't . |
| 26 | And they keep saying , why ? |
| 27 | They teach him at school , they teach him at college , and they keep making films of him , too . |
| 28 | Some of these things as well , they 've been pinching back from upstairs , toys they , they 've played with when they were smaller and they do n't play with them now and I put them upstairs out of the way and they keep going and finding them and bringing them down . |
| 29 | Course she 's worried , cos like she smokes a lot and she 's say what thirty and that 's her first , and they keep going on to her all the time like , I said well do n't worry about it , you know . |
| 30 | And they keep going . |