Example sentences of "you [modal v] keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 2 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 3 | But if you sit here a moment , I will comb out your hair , and you may keep the comb . |
| 4 | ‘ Very well , you may keep your knife , if that will encourage you to accept my challenge . ’ |
| 5 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 6 | Said to Betty I said you ought keep your bloody heating on Betty ! |
| 7 | Finally , you ought to keep in mind the possibility that circumstances may change between the time when you are first told that you are a redundancy candidate and the date when your employment ends . |
| 8 | You ought to keep in mind , though , that even if you have been constructively dismissed , an industrial tribunal might still regard your employer 's actions as fair . |
| 9 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 10 | You ought to keep rooms for archaeologists as well as fishermen . ’ |
| 11 | Her husband , looking hard at his glass , said : ‘ You ought to keep on the right side of her , any road . |
| 12 | You ought to keep that cos it 's a nice memento to keep . |
| 13 | You must keep the soldiers out of here . ’ |
| 14 | For every employee , you must keep a record of the employee 's name and NI number , and |
| 15 | You must keep records of : |
| 16 | ‘ You must keep trying , Mr O'Shea , ’ Nurse Bodkin urged . |
| 17 | ‘ You must keep him locked up . |
| 18 | Sisyrinchium can last up to six weeks when cut , although you must keep removing dead flowers as they die so that the buds at the top will carry on opening . |
| 19 | However , weight is not the be-all and end-all and you must keep a check on your general shape and fitness . |
| 20 | You must master the characteristics of your implements and power sources until you can handle them instinctively in all conditions , and you must keep them well maintained so that they are always ready to be used when the right moment occurs . |
| 21 | Whilst doing this you must keep the end of the boom out of the water since if it ‘ catches ’ , the wind will fill the sail and control will be lost . |
| 22 | Throughout the turn you must keep very low . |
| 23 | You must keep your Card safely and take all possible care to avoid its loss or theft . |
| 24 | ‘ You must keep your hands warm . ’ |
| 25 | No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule . |
| 26 | You must keep the attacker at bay with your legs — one leg out ready to kick him with the heel , the other held slightly back out of reach to protect your groin . |
| 27 | You must keep to light , plain colours . |
| 28 | At the fork halfway up the hill you must keep by the cemetery side to find the Poly , which comes into view as you reach the parking lot at the top of the hill . |
| 29 | You must keep up with the full range of your subjects — but where do you begin ? |
| 30 | You must keep within the law . |