Keep on
Keep on verb - Allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature.
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Both terms in one sentence
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: In the first stage of X, there are a pair of background NPCs who keep on chatting calmly even as you start gunning down mooks.
Source: Video Game / Metal Slug -
The genes will keep on working until the only thing left is the brain - keep chopping off legs and arms and the genes will start re-purposing largely unneeded organs to regrow them.
Source: Literature / Great Ship -
Grand Theft Me: Eventually, to be able to keep on living since cloned bodies no longer work, the people of Theseus start kidnapping natural born Naturas and stealing their bodies.
Source: Anime / Ozuma
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