Example sentences of "[v-ing] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas wore himself out seeking to keep control over every conceivable decision in his own hands , so convinced was he that the sovereign alone could perceive the common good . |
| 2 | She could n't bear things like Anna refusing to keep house or giving any pleasure to herself . |
| 3 | Mr Miles said : ‘ Nobody would be wanting to keep machinery going if there is no hope for Tim 's survival . ’ |
| 4 | Ever-improving direct air service from Britain to the gateways of Miami and Orlando is helping keep travel costs down , and tourist living expenses in Florida benefits from competition in the hotel , car rental and tour business , especially in the off-season . |
| 5 | I would urge any readers interested in helping keep Nazism out of Sunderland to contact one of the numerous local or national groups , be it the ANL , the Anti-Fascist Association or another . |
| 6 | Assumptions about the nature of the professional/client relationship will have to change significantly , if professionals are going to keep pace with the changes which are coming increasingly from sources beyond their control . |
| 7 | They 're going to keep being first all the time and you 'll be thinking , Hang on hang on I have n't worked that out . |
| 8 | At KLM , we 're always improving to keep pace with your higher level of expectations . |
| 9 | Karen and Jenny staying to keep office open , etc ! |
| 10 | Because the American-Iraqi meetings that were supposed to offer a last chance for peace may not happen , nervous intermediaries , notably the European Community , are striving to keep diplomacy alive . |
| 11 | Man : ‘ I am an ordinary representative of the workers and I 'm helping to keep order here . ’ |
| 12 | Here again Oxfam made fresh water available … helping to keep disease at bay . |
| 13 | Many agencies are helping to keep health personnel at their jobs by providing perks , such as cars , out-of-country work trips , and per diems for seminars . |
| 14 | But Bavaria is changing fast and the CSU is struggling to keep pace . |
| 15 | Harry fell in beside him , struggling to keep pace with his rapid strides . |
| 16 | Unemployment dominated the 15-minute session of Prime Minister 's questions , with the Speaker , Betty Boothroyd , struggling to keep order . |
| 17 | They sat in silence , unable to look at each other , struggling to keep control of their emotions . |
| 18 | ‘ Edina Ronay has had enormous pressure this year , struggling to keep business alive . |
| 19 | She came to see me a year later , total loss of weight , total short of breath , hardly , she 's struggling to keep body and soul together . |
| 20 | Ronni had followed Guido from the room , running to keep pace with him as he headed across the hall . |
| 21 | Apart from the strain on accommodation and feed stocks , having to keep dairy cattle on instead of selling them as planned means exceeding milk quota , possibly at great cost . |
| 22 | In the jargon , it means that applications can be ‘ stateless ’ , that is , is the communication application having to keep track of what it state it was in when the failure occurred . |
| 23 | ‘ Our football at the moment , ’ as one sage put it , ‘ is like our economy — failing to keep pace with changing conditions in the society around it . ’ |
| 24 | With power-generating capacity failing to keep pace with demand , and occasional blackouts , even oil-rich Kuwait is seriously contemplating programmes to conserve energy . |
| 25 | TO SACK Norman Lamont now , eight months after he should have done the honourable thing for failing to keep sterling within Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , would smack of prime-ministerial panic and cheap populism . |
| 26 | The rest went slap bang into the middle of Oldhams half , therefore continuing to keep pressure on Oldham . |
| 27 | But England 's latest problem was new boy Rashid Latif , he of the frantic cap-throwing episode at Headingley , who now , having kept wicket with a dexterity to which Moin , whom he now replaced , could never aspire , began to bat with the attractive aplomb of a Dujon . |
| 28 | Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid . |
| 29 | The scene might have been absorbing had I not been fighting to keep control of the wheelbarrow . |
| 30 | I hope that does n't sound surprising because its very unsurprisingness is something I am trying to keep hold of . |