Example sentences of "keep her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you work it out this year , right , Joy keeping her dole right , this one , say |
| 2 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 3 | All that mattered was keeping her secret . |
| 4 | If I 'm not keeping her appetite sharp for flying , she has two or three chicks a day . |
| 5 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 6 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 7 | She was keeping her promise to herself , but in her heart of hearts Tess knew that eventually she would accept him . |
| 8 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 9 | ‘ All right , dear ? ’ asked her mother , keeping her gaze on the television screen . |
| 10 | Eventually , after walking along many avenues flanked by big houses and grand , white , marble wayside shrines , keeping her direction heading uphill , Cleo came to another wide bridge which was decorated with gilded wrought-iron curlicues . |
| 11 | He must have jogged to the shops and back , she deduced , keeping her brain detached as she stared at him . |
| 12 | ‘ Keeping her man under her eye and calling it looking after him . ’ |
| 13 | She took a deep breath and then spoke , keeping her voice low and steady . |
| 14 | ‘ Sit down , ’ she said , keeping her voice calm , ‘ and I 'll make you breakfast . ’ |
| 15 | She was keeping her voice low , much as one might while singing a lullaby to the one wakeful soul in a house full of sleeping children . |
| 16 | ‘ Back off , ’ Lucy said , keeping her voice low . |
| 17 | Keeping her voice as detached as possible , she gave her mother a brief — and heavily expurgated — resumé of what Luke had told her the day of their sightseeing trip . |
| 18 | ‘ The poor thing must be exhausted , ’ she commented , keeping her voice low . |
| 19 | ‘ Do n't say anything ! ’ she snapped , keeping her voice low and hoping that nobody else could hear . |
| 20 | Keeping her voice low , Mrs McMahon began , ‘ I 'll not tell you his name — I 'll not tell anyone his name ; that will go to the grave with me — but he was n't English , Ellie . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll do that — later , ’ she replied , keeping her voice calm while checking to make sure the camping area was available at the required period . |
| 22 | She shook her head at once and , keeping her voice level , replied , ‘ There 's nothing you can do for me , but thanks for the offer … ’ |
| 23 | Keeping her voice steady was a battle in itself as the touch of his hard , powerful body against her own was sending her breathing awry . |
| 24 | Zoe tried to explain , keeping her voice low on account of the boy : she 'd thought Lowell was in love with a Victorian photograph — and that was crazy . |
| 25 | Although we have tried hard with Jane , we have not succeeded … in keeping her calm and amenable and pleasant , as she can be . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , ’ she promised , keeping her expression as solemn as his . |
| 27 | Shannon started to shake , hearing again the playground taunts , seeing the looks in the eyes of the children as they danced about her , holding hands and chanting , keeping her captive in the middle of the circle . |
| 28 | She crept down , keeping her suitcase under her right arm to conceal it as best she could with her body . |
| 29 | She tossed her hair back and addressed him levelly , keeping her rage in check . |
| 30 | And er she says like when I think of me keeping her child overnight and all before it 's in hospital and running down to hospital three or four times when he was in the hospital , and taking him sweets and all , and she says she 's treating me like shit . |