Example sentences of "he keep himself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He keeps himself to himself . |
| 2 | ‘ He keeps himself to himself , that one , ’ Claudette added . |
| 3 | He keeps himself to himself , he likes kids and is kind to animals . |
| 4 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 5 | He kept himself to himself as a rule , except for meals : attended what lectures he chose , and cut the rest . |
| 6 | As he worked on his script he kept himself to himself . |
| 7 | He kept himself to himself , and never bothered anyone . |
| 8 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 9 | I hoped that university would bring him out of his shell , but he kept himself to himself . ’ |
| 10 | At such meetings he kept himself in touch with the constantly changing scene of poetry , the new faces which appeared , the old names which disappeared . |
| 11 | Having given up racing , he kept himself in the thick of things through his Goodyear racing-tyre distributorship and by opening a racing school at Riverside . |
| 12 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 13 | Leaving the university , he kept himself by teaching privately and lecturing , and then produced his first scientific paper at the age of 22 . |