Example sentences of "and [v-ing] keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I could influence the situation by saving resources and helping to keep the environment as clean as possible . ’ |
| 2 | By changing your dietary habits and helping to keep your blood sugar on a more constant level , we would hope to have you in better physical and mental shape . |
| 3 | There are believed to be anywhere between 50,000 and 100,000 migrant labourers from the Philippines , Indonesia and Thailand working illegally in Taiwan and helping to keep down wage levels . |
| 4 | I am referring to the machine tool industry , which is a key industry now suffering and struggling to keep seventh place in the world . |
| 5 | Detroit is shabby , poverty-ridden and struggling to keep its head above water It has a huge crime problem . |
| 6 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 7 | Wet and splattering to keep warm , we giggle too much while small crowish birds squawk strange somethings in the swamp bit . |
| 8 | Kicking and bucking to keep her balance , she managed to draw to a shuddering halt close to the rushing torrent about ten feet below where he was standing . |
| 9 | The kitchen was a chaotic babble of activity , with Colban issuing orders in all directions and striving to keep an eye on those attendants who were entrusted with the care of vital sauces and gravies . |
| 10 | As result of this incident , BNF was eventually fined £10,000 ( with £60,000 costs ) for failing to ‘ minimize the exposure of persons to radiation ’ and failing to keep adequate records . |
| 11 | The once well respected investments expert pleaded not guilty to nineteen charges of theft , deception , unauthorised trading and failing to keep proper accounts . |
| 12 | Having attended a trial or two in my time , and having kept an eye on the changing standard of juries , police , barristers and judges , I am convinced that if hanging were reintroduced , they would not just occasionally hang the wrong person , but do it pretty well every time . |
| 13 | PAUL LINEHAM has a story about being at home in Cork at Christmas and having to keep the band 's first two EPs by the side of his bed , so scared was he that the previous three months had been nothing more than a ‘ fierce dream ’ . |
| 14 | Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant . |
| 15 | She doubted she would ever sleep again while fitzAlan was in the immediate vicinity , but the prospect of remaining awake and having to keep her mask of aloof composure in place was daunting indeed . |
| 16 | It 's been bad enough walking about with my insides falling out and knowing people were looking and having to keep on behaving like a healthy young virgin who 's never had anything to do with a man . |
| 17 | This requires careful measurement and joining to keep the two elbow bends aligned — assemble them dry and mark with a pencil . |
| 18 | Tightly clutching his hand and running to keep up , Constance had believed him . |
| 19 | The lawn to the south of the house , shown on a plan by Bourginion , the French surveyor employed to redesign the garden , corresponds almost exactly with the description given in the second edition ( 1733 ) of the Dictionary , where Miller insists on frequent mowing and rolling to keep the grass in good order . |
| 20 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
| 21 | I spent all the next seven months waiting for my case to come up and fighting to keep my daughter . |
| 22 | At first I could n't see them , but when I heard a little quack I had a close look and saw them all there huddled together and trying to keep warm . |
| 23 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 24 | But they 're at their best during songs like ‘ Stomach Worm ’ , where a cute , simplistic beat pop tune ascends slowly into noisy chaos , thrashing around in an acid bath and trying to keep from being submerged . |
| 25 | There 's stuff about infidelity and trying to keep it quiet , for instance . |
| 26 | Interpretive dancers rushed about the chamber , waving their arms and trying to keep the fruit piled on their headdresses from coming loose . |
| 27 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |
| 28 | Jenna nodded , her eyes on the field , trying to imagine it full of poppies and trying to keep her mind off Alain . |
| 29 | ‘ During an office day we 're answering the phones , planning ahead , keeping the bookwork up to date and trying to keep everybody happy ! ’ |
| 30 | I was having a War at the time — the Mussels against the Dead Flies I think it was — and while I was in the library poring over the book and trying to keep my eyes open , soaking up all those damn silly Imperial measurements , the wind would be blowing my fly armies over half the island and the sea would first sink the mussel shells in their high pools and then cover them with sand . |