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keep on doing sth

Phrasal Verb with keep
 
 
/kiːp/ verb (past tense and past participle kept)

Definition

to continue to do something, or to do something again and again: She kept on asking me questions the whole time.
(Definition of keep on doing sth from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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