Example sentences of "been keeping [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
2 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
3 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
4 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
5 | They had to look only as far as France to learn how pernicious are the effects of unlocking the archives after a period when the secret police have been keeping open house . |