Example sentences of "to keep [pn reflx] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was admittedly a fiki but he was very restrained and seemed anxious to keep himself invisible at the back . |
| 2 | Charsky , who had no idea how many nights he had spent on the face , tried to keep himself awake by recalling all he knew of Russian history , from the founding of Kiev Rus to the death of Stalin and the suppression of Hungary . |
| 3 | He needed it to keep himself afloat at home . |
| 4 | The harbour porpoise , for instance , needs to maintain a rate three times that of an equivalent-sized land mammal to keep itself warm in cold waters . |
| 5 | This still does not account satisfactorily for the tiger 's thick fur and the need to keep itself cool in its oriental habitat . |
| 6 | Stripey did not care to be fed by human beings , and understood how to keep herself warm in cold weather . |
| 7 | The old story about the Roman legionaries using nettles to keep themselves warm on night duty in the cold northern province that was Britain may be apocryphal , but there is no doubt that the sting resulting from the touch of a nettle leaf causes a burning sensation . |
| 8 | It 's a trick they 've learned , presumably to keep themselves safe in confined spaces . |
| 9 | She says : ‘ I knew I had to keep myself tidy for what lay ahead . ’ |
| 10 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 11 | So the lesson to be learnt from that is that erm it 's not always possible to keep yourself out of trouble , but you can do what you have to do to keep yourself safe by maintaining a proper separation distance . |