Example sentences of "[noun] to keep [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pa shrugged himself into his coat and tied a muffler about his neck to keep out the cold February wind . |
| 2 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
| 3 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 4 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 5 | It was bitterly cold in the cell-like bedroom and the two girls were huddled on the bed , wrapped in blankets , with cats draped over their feet to keep out the cold . |
| 6 | Stamina or endurance refers to your capacity to keep up a certain level of sustained exercise . |
| 7 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 8 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 9 | The Bank also uses the Exchange Equalization Account to intervene in the foreign exchange market by buying up surplus sterling to keep up the external value of the pound . |
| 10 | I can almost hear Riva chewing on the inside of her own cheek to keep back the laughter . |
| 11 | In addition , the desire to keep up a respectable level of income or the desire of the woman to have a job or career , may lead to the woman going to work . |
| 12 | You can help the old grandma to keep up a supply of hot water . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Ralf meant no harm , and , in any case , there is no need to keep up the pretence that we 're married . ’ |
| 14 | Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing . |
| 15 | She told Pam to keep out the shop . |
| 16 | We had to sit there watching it for days to keep away the dogs and chickens and stop the crows and vultures swooping down and snatching it away . ’ |
| 17 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 18 | He handed her a blanket as she had no shawl and made sure it covered her head to keep out the cold . |
| 19 | With only one or two filters , it may be necessary to have adequate storage for filtered water to keep up the supply while filters are out of action . |
| 20 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 21 | Five judges hearing the case wore coats to keep out the cold in the unheated , high-ceilinged room . |
| 22 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 23 | Yet inefficiency in the command structure had hampered his efforts to keep up the pressure on Rommel 's supply lines , and in being ordered to return to base , he felt the grip of official interference . |
| 24 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 25 | The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land . |
| 26 | On all sides were banks of flowers , and climbing shrubs and vines formed a partial canopy to keep out the fierce sun . |
| 27 | The theoretical framework which underwrites the planning , attempts to keep together the four modes of language and their relation to learning and teaching in schools . |
| 28 | A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses … and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs . |
| 29 | From childhood to grave , come rain or shine , joy or sorrow , but for a miracle , you yourself would have worn such garb to keep out the cold , the heat and the rain . |
| 30 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |