Example sentences of "[not/n't] keep [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 2 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 3 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 4 | Cheney declared himself " stunned , angry and frustrated " by his involvement in the scandal and , like many other offenders , blamed dubious administrative practices by the bank for not keeping a more accurate record of the state of his account and for not keeping him more closely informed of his financial position . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh he 's not keeping me . |
| 6 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 7 | She wondered whether Bryony was offended ; perhaps she thought Carolyn was criticizing them for not keeping it cleaner . |
| 8 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The problem is not keeping you going , McAllister , but getting you to stop . |
| 10 | The walls of the cottage were thick enough to shut out the worst sounds of the storm 's buffeting , and even the creaking of doors and rattling of windows could not keep me awake for long . |
| 11 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 12 | I can not keep her any longer for what she can afford to pay , and she would like you to find her accommodation near where you live . |
| 13 | ‘ I shall be here , ’ Joan said quietly — telling herself that wild horses , let alone Richard of Gloucester , would not keep her from Edward . |
| 14 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 15 | But he would not keep her long . |
| 16 | Lesley-Jane could not keep her back to the door indefinitely and turned . |
| 17 | Siobhan , Crilly 's mother , bashed both of her legs in the accident , though this did not keep her from crawling to the aid of those more severely injured than she . |
| 18 | He did not keep her in suspense . |
| 19 | ‘ Willi , we can not keep her here . |
| 20 | Naylor did not keep her waiting , but rang her doorbell with a few minutes to go before eleven . |
| 21 | Mr Menem 's show of leniency towards a few elderly officers may not keep them quiet for long . |
| 22 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 23 | Provided the content of cars built in Japanese factories in Britain is about 80% local , the continental Europeans can not keep them out . |
| 24 | He is human and so is she and all the marriage certificates in the world would not keep him faithful if he were tempted in those circumstances . ’ |
| 25 | In anger she wrote : — whatever you have a mind to do Ellen it is not for you to dictate Oreste 's future and I confess I was disturbed to have you write as though he were your son and not mine , which he is and you know you can not keep him and that it would be wrong . |
| 26 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 27 | Even the after effects could not keep him from the final . |
| 28 | " Why did you not keep him ? " |
| 29 | I do not keep him tied to my apron strings . " |
| 30 | She did not keep him long . |