Example sentences of "[that] kept [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	‘ The teaching was just something that kept me alive ; I 'd tried to live off music before that , and failed .
2	I remember recording 13 groups in one day , and the only thing that kept me sane was knowing I was getting music together with Enya .
3	I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help .
4	The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor .
5	It was Elizabeth 's courage and devotion that kept him alive until his own courage could take over .
6	In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive .
7	Perhaps it was this that kept him alive .
8	Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage .
9	Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power .
10	Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person .
11	Would we wish a return to be days when children were deported for stealing the loaf of bread that kept them alive ?
12	Ewen 's were wide , injured , unbelieving ; Neil 's stony , but I could see the effort that kept them level .
13	She was unaware of his scrutiny , gazing with fondness at the two blond-headed little boys who were shovelling gravy-sodden potato into their mouths , an exercise — and apparently the only one — that kept them silent .
14	He went up and here there 's two first cousins were fighting about the croft and that was left about fifty years before then started fighting about it and one had got transferred to and that kept it quiet .

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