Example sentences of "keep [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once these young people became achievers , both in keeping down a job for part of the week , and by acquiring skills relevant to the work , their self-esteem would be enhanced . |
| 2 | Keeping down the overheads is also vitally important , buying in materials and services is very expensive and when these are extracted from the takings they can leave a very big hole in the balance sheet . |
| 3 | The reasons for keeping down the number of updates to an inverted file are discussed below , and the form of a dual serial-inverted file system is shown in Fig. 8.4 . |
| 4 | The Bush administration sent contradictory signals about its intentions to continue its economic strategy of keeping down the federal deficit while awaiting recovery in 1992 . |
| 5 | The building materials company has been a market defensive favourite for the past decade as it concentrated on keeping down the costs of making its cement , and joinery , glass and steel products . |
| 6 | But it has been a case of getting better at managing the cash ; better at keeping down the costs . |
| 7 | ‘ Even from the outside it looks cosy , ’ Paula observed , keeping up a cheerful note . |
| 8 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 9 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 10 | Colonials keeping up a good show , ignoring the riotous jungle around them . |
| 11 | So they 're keeping up a mystery to stay even with us . |
| 12 | This time he 's a cyclist he 's a racing cyclist and he 's keeping up a steady twenty . |
| 13 | With a deep breath , Ace slipped out from behind the rocks , and ran in a crouch down the length of the wall , keeping up a steady rate of fire from her gun . |
| 14 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 15 | Spirit and flesh both quailed before so difficult and rowdy an audience on so difficult and perilous a subject … as I sat in the committee room while the order of the meeting was being arranged , and heard my audience shouting , singing , crowing like cocks … and keeping up a continuous uproar , I thought to myself , ‘ I have got to go into that and control it somehow so as to be heard ’ … |
| 16 | But it quickly re-formed in 1897 to challenge fresh regulationism introduced into India , keeping up a constant barrage of propaganda against any return to compulsory medical inspection and detention of prostitutes at home . |
| 17 | She had been writing poems since her childhood , and at university was busy with poems , stories , editing the Smith Review , keeping up a high academic standard , and leading a full social life . |
| 18 | Usually rather subdued piping or twittering calls , flocks often keeping up a conversational twitter . |
| 19 | Cook drove clumsily , keeping up a constant stream of chatter . |
| 20 | ‘ So you write to your family , keeping up a pretence that all is well with your world ? |
| 21 | She chatted on , keeping up a constant barrier between them , all the way out to the car park , and when she was securely belted into the passenger-seat she fiddled with her gloves and gave a deliberate yawn . |
| 22 | But even so he stripped her without haste , all the while keeping up a slow calculated assault on her senses , until the only thought she could cling to was that she must n't reveal her love . |
| 23 | Tired as they were , they stumbled through the dark hours , picking themselves up when they fell , keeping up a pace that left no time for thought or speech . |
| 24 | And if Liz does steer the fastest line , she 'll be keeping up a recent Oxford tradition . |
| 25 | This superb sum was the result of members and friends keeping up a daily supply of super baking . |
| 26 | The most important thing was just physically keeping up the morale . |
| 27 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 28 | Keeping up the good old traditions . |
| 29 | A Borderer from Melrose , he showed more interest in keeping up the rivalry between Highlander and Lowlander than in scoring off the Sassenachs , whom he was prepared to respect as competitors and , if they were good enough , business associates . |
| 30 | Denis , he supposed , keeping up the first son tradition . |