Example sentences of "kept [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept off the beaten track , away from those traders who fixed high prices , for Shallot knew where to go . |
| 2 | I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life . |
| 3 | It faced in fifty-seven directions at once , but kept from the old American contingent , and from the anarchic underground , dislike of any political organization , a terror of being bored , or boring , and a tendency , at times , to be both , and incomprehensible with it . |
| 4 | The diary Bobby kept over the next few months usefully logs many of the characters and landing stages in Minton 's frenzied circuit . |
| 5 | The car crossed the shallow racing river in Boyle , passed the grey walls of the roofless monastery , and it kept on the main road leading across the Curlews . |
| 6 | Instead he kept to the present subject . |
| 7 | But as she kept to the inside edge of the footpath to avoid being splashed by the congestion of horse-drawn vehicles her gaze turned to the heart of the city , and all at once her spirits lifted . |
| 8 | I kept to the correct road by drawing two parallel lines , one either side of the route . |
| 9 | One kept to the main streets ; the second , marginally shorter way , passed through the side road in which Giles 's office was situated . |
| 10 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |