Example sentences of "i kept [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 2 | But I kept hearing him like scrape it during the concert . |
| 3 | That was why I kept pushing you and provoking you — to try and make you spit it out . |
| 4 | All the morning I kept pushing it back again . |
| 5 | And always , when we were apart , I kept bringing you beside me in my imagination , in the poems I was writing all alone , writing for you as well as for myself : |
| 6 | I kept calling him back ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I kept imagining him talking and laughing and thinking what his last thoughts would have been as he travelled along that road . ’ |
| 9 | I kept leaving her as I had mixed feelings about being married to someone older than myself . |
| 10 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 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 | Cos I kept singing it this morning . |
| 13 | And I was here all on my own , I kept singing it ! |
| 14 | After I moved to my apartment in the Hotel España I kept hoping I might be able to persuade you to come and share it , or at least to take the one next to mine , which was empty . |
| 15 | I kept kicking it the other day and I thought well it feels ever so light , I thought there was quite a few left . |
| 16 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I kept telling him what controls to use , the repeated reply was , ‘ OK , but I 've never done this before ’ , but he never sounded frightened . |
| 19 | I kept telling them . |
| 20 | I kept telling her to take it off |
| 21 | ‘ They kept saying they thought it was a fine script , and I kept saying it was n't . |
| 22 | For almost the whole flight I kept asking her about life in England . |
| 23 | Well I kept asking her , it made hard work , yeah . |
| 24 | I kept asking him questions . |
| 25 | ‘ I kept asking him to just leave me a quote . |
| 26 | First time , but I kept when I kept going I kept slipping . |
| 27 | I kept examining it in a fond fever ) . |
| 28 | I had mine in kitchen and I kept knocking it over every time I opened up |
| 29 | You see , I kept blaming you for everything , but that was n't fair , a lot of it was my fault too , and I might make the same mistakes all over again , and I could n't bear that . |
| 30 | 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 . |