Example sentences of "[be] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once , Happy Mondays are keeping schtum . |
| 2 | Glad you are keeping chirpy . |
| 3 | The travellers have now left their sites in Milton Keynes … but police are keeping track of their movements in case they 're soon in a popsition to make an arrest . |
| 4 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 5 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 6 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 8 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 9 | In the alley itself , Detective Gary Lomax had been keeping watch on the towering fire escape . |
| 10 | ‘ Mrs Choak , how long have you been keeping house for your brother ? ’ |
| 11 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |
| 12 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 13 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 14 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 15 | Here at On we 're keeping trim with snip young gunslingers THE SCISSORMEN and say ‘ break a leg ’ to ROLLERSKATE SKINNY |
| 16 | If you 're keeping surveillance on it . |
| 17 | Now Leicester need a win in their last game , and they have to hope Boro slip up in their last two , at home to Grimsby on Tuesday and at Wolves next Saturday , if they are to keep hold of second place and avoid the nerve-wracking play-offs . |
| 18 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , the essential basics to make sure that things are right are to keep inflation down , to keep interest rates down , to have the right tax structure and to continue with the improved industrial relations that we have had in recent years . |
| 19 | As with other professionals , they must learn and relearn throughout their professional lives if they are to keep pace with modern trends and changing needs . |
| 20 | Travel — Ferries : Ferry firms keep their heads above water With the Chunnel coming , ferry companies know they must smarten up their act if they are to keep custom . |
| 21 | But he insisted there would be ‘ considerable ’ monitoring of other aspects of community care including assessments , where the DoH will be keeping watch on eligibility criteria for services . |
| 22 | They could be keeping pace with me , along Forrest Avenue , down Gladewood Road , and across up through Park Crescent . |
| 23 | Four friends will be keeping pace with him on the ground , carrying all the spares he might need for a flight which is expected to last for a month . |
| 24 | Old Mother Thames will be keeping mum about what she has in store for them … until the big day in April . |
| 25 | In one area of Isabela Island the donkeys seem to be keeping goat numbers in check , while cats , wherever they occur , tend to keep down the rats . |
| 26 | You may want this , and choose coral gravel or crushed shell — but you may be keeping Neon Tetras or Discus and need hardness-free gravel . |
| 27 | The hand-claps sometimes seemed to be keeping time with my leisurely steps as I wandered under the arcades in the hot night , but that was just a coincidence . |
| 28 | I 'm keeping house , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I 'm to keep house . ’ |
| 30 | In Kenya bureaucracy provided 40 per cent of the country 's jobs and had to be kept content . |