Example sentences of "[conj] to keep [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you are trying to lose weight or to keep your weight down , it sometimes seems like needless fuss making a ‘ proper cooked lunch ’ . |
| 2 | If he wants to get or to keep his employment , he has to sign the document which the employer puts before him and he may do so without fully appreciating what it may involve . |
| 3 | He had never been encouraged to think about the way he looked , other than to keep his body fit for the Vibrancy . |
| 4 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 5 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 6 | I had little to do except to give her steerage way — for a boat simply moving with the water can not be steered — and to keep her head up . |
| 7 | She wanted very much to be good and to keep her promise . |
| 8 | I think I knew , even then , that she needed not only my mother , but my father , and all the rest of us , to fix her bearings and to keep her world in focus . |
| 9 | I had one job to do first thing in the morning — to ring Sir Geoffrey Gillington and ask him to arrange for the manager of the Upper Thames Street branch of the bank to receive Miss Macdonald when she called , and to keep her letter for me . |
| 10 | My actual words I believe were something in the line of telling Helen to mind her own business and to keep her nose out of my affairs , but Beth and Ida could never understand why I reacted so violently . |
| 11 | Sarah knew she was slow , and she tried hard to grasp things more quickly and to keep her mind on the task or game in hand , but she did n't always succeed . |
| 12 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 13 | I 've tried in this book to demonstrate the importance for people in television to ignore the more glamorous and artificial aspects of the job , and to keep their feet firmly on the ground . |
| 14 | The effect of this , quite naturally , is for even the most conscientious of organisations not to bring out modifications or amendments and to keep their fingers crossed in the hope that their suspicions of a failure or shortcoming will prove to be unsubstantiated . |
| 15 | Given the way that business is suffering under the policies and decisions of this Government , and especially the policies of the Prime Minister , does the Minister recognise that he has a responsibility to ask his officials to deal with businesses in such a way as to enable them , wherever possible , to retain jobs and to keep their businesses going ? |
| 16 | Finding that he was not there , they ordered two family members and three customers to enter a police minibus and to keep their heads down . |
| 17 | Many teachers are able to function pretty well and to keep their doubts and feelings under reasonable control . |
| 18 | They simply have not got the money , and they are frightened to put the heating on and to keep their homes warm because of the bills which they know they will not be able to pay . |
| 19 | Even horses that appear to be asleep or resting , continue to change their weight from one hind foot to the other , to swish their tails , twitch an occasional muscle in their sides , and to keep their ears moving and informing them of what is happening all around . |
| 20 | Until some experience has been gained , however , the beginner would be well advised to use his tuba simply as a ‘ double bass ’ to the brass group , and to keep his tuba parts low . |
| 21 | Well regardless of the hyperbole and the rhetoric , in fact it was an American defeat er he had to accept the existence of a communist regime in Cuba and to keep his hands off it . |
| 22 | And to keep my promise to Beatrix . |
| 23 | As a sort of consolation for the others , it was agreed that a second force of cavalry , somewhat larger , perhaps two thousand , should come along behind , as support , but to keep their distance for the sake of secrecy and only move if called for . |
| 24 | As much as I would like to hand you over to the police , I have no choice but to keep my suspicions to myself . ’ |
| 25 | So it 's pretty , it 's pretty er er and in fact some of these , these flocks who were grazing at the er w where just above that er that limit only just but just slightly above it so , so but in fact i if the farmers er grazed their sheep er further down the hillside er then in fact the , the er er the level dropped very rapidly and the sheep were then erm so it was a , a commercial decision as to whether to keep your sheep up on the hills to , to eat radioactive grass and get the compensation or to graze your sheep further down and actually the , the lamb the , the , the lambs for , for , for for the market . |
| 26 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 27 | You erm stay with T one , three , four please just so that we er understand the point you 're making and I would ask you if you 'd be so kind as to keep your voice well up . |