Example sentences of "and he continue [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ .
2 God has revealed himself through his Spirit in his Word , and he continues to do so .
3 Mr Tholen chaired their appeal committee which raised £250,000 in three months and he continues to invest a small covenant in the school .
4 If his instructions are disobeyed and he continues to fear a breach of the peace , he can therefore arrest , for a breach of the peace , the person who refuses to comply , and either seek to have the person bound over , or prosecuted for obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty .
5 His purpose is to try to target legal aid on individual need and he continues to seek ways — as we all must — to reduce the cost of litigation , both criminal and civil .
6 The earl was one of the promoters of the canal , which was opened to traffic in 1794 , and he continued to use it after his rivals had switched to the railway .
7 Even in the later stages of his boxing career , he held a most acute perception of the problems besetting black people and he continued to carry such a perception to the ring .
8 Richard Aslett Pearce was the first born-deaf man to be ordained in Britain , and he continued to do pastoral work throughout Hampshire until his death in 1928 .
9 Addressing both houses of Congress on the subject of the Gulf war on March 6 , President George Bush placed a crime bill near the top of his domestic agenda , and he continued to link the issue of crime with that of the Gulf war when he sent a package of legislative proposals to Congress on March 11 .
10 At the time he was still sculpting and he continued to carve his large heads , sometimes in polychrome , until 1915 or 1916 .
11 Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 .
12 Nevertheless , legislation still required his sanction , and he continued to preside over cabinet meetings .
13 Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris .
14 He emerged from the frostbitten earth as mysteriously and magically as the transitory rare flowers ; and he continued to move mysteriously — you left him under a coat and he reappeared in a drawer — all that winter .
15 And he continued to drive a battered 1979 pick-up truck , its upholstery chewed to pieces by his beloved hunting dogs .
16 But he stayed where he was and he continued to regard the Robemaker from over the restricting mask and , presently , the Robemaker said , ‘ Does it not irk you and chafe you to be so confined , Wolfprince ? ’
17 In the spring Mr Edgar was still ill , and he continued to worry about Cathy 's future .
18 During the autumn of 1479 he was appointed in addition to the office of master of the choristers , and he continued to occupy both appointments until his departure between 1 October 1484 and 30 September 1485 .
19 Schiller had demonstrated the danger of space heating sales before nationalisation and he continued to dissent on that issue within the BEA headquarters , backed by a genuine concern to advance scientific knowledge in this area .
20 His dedication to the subject was complete and he continued to write and give high quality papers at various conferences .
21 He discussed any issue , and particularly this one , with everyone he could think of and he continued to show throughout his political career an indecision that in some directions had dire consequences .
22 There was no sleep that night for us , nor for the immediate neighbours , and he continued to scream and cry until about 5 am .
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