Example sentences of "to keep up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |
| 2 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 3 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 4 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 5 | Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends . |
| 6 | And Mr Major was determined to keep up the morale . |
| 7 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 8 | How to keep up the colour ? |
| 9 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 10 | Of course it 's not easy to keep up the smiles in public , as the couple showed in Seoul yesterday when they arrived for a five-day Korean visit . |
| 11 | Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing . |
| 12 | Brian Fletcher on Red Rum thought he was , and urged his mount to keep up the pursuit . |
| 13 | More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers . |
| 14 | It was only in London they had to keep up the pretence that Buckmaster had nothing to do with his company . |
| 15 | What effort is required to keep up the pretence ? |
| 16 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 17 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Ralf meant no harm , and , in any case , there is no need to keep up the pretence that we 're married . ’ |
| 19 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 20 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 21 | Late on Wednesday night , a man purporting to be General Noriega spoke on the pro-regime National Radio , urging all Panamanians ‘ to keep up the resistance ’ and appealing for support from the outside world . |
| 22 | Farewell , ’ said Quigley , clearly anxious to keep up the tone necessary for spirit dialogue . |
| 23 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 24 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 25 | Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’ |
| 26 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 27 | If that person dies the remaining friends are not sure whether to keep up the contact or not . |
| 28 | If Vecchi killed Mahoney , as seemed fairly certain , he 'd already got hold of whatever was necessary to keep up the blackmail of Laura Channing . |
| 29 | ‘ Then you 're afraid of yourself — afraid you wo n't be able to keep up the fight against the part of you that dares to be human . ’ |
| 30 | PEOPLE from the Lisburn area were today urged to keep up the fight to safeguard Lagan Valley Hospital 's acute status . |