Example sentences of "kept up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , Madeleine kept up a spirit of personal participation and deep involvement in her own healing . |
2 | Louise kept up a flow of bright chatter as they set off for Wigmore Street . |
3 | She kept up a flow of nervous chatter from the kitchen while she brewed up two cups of instant coffee . |
4 | On the other , Ernestine kept up a flow of low-voiced chatter , permeated by sobs . |
5 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
6 | Throughout the day trained police negotiators kept up a dialogue with Mr Say by telephone and at the door of the bungalow . |
7 | The pulsating roar of the engines formed a steady background as Delaney kept up a barrage on the door . |
8 | Lisabeth kept up a barrage of whispered questions . |
9 | ‘ I was personally told he was not concerned about my past so long as I kept up a volume of business , ’ he said . |
10 | In the car Evelyn kept up a stream of chatter . |
11 | As they walked through the hospital to Lizzy 's ward , Evelyn kept up a stream of abuse . |
12 | He kept up a routine of a sort , but as , from a mixture of laziness and disapproval of political scribblers like Lloyd George and Churchill , he never wrote anything , and increasingly preferred sniffing old books to reading new ones , there was not much purpose to his life . |
13 | Ivy had her hands full with the driving , and although Zen soon gave up trying to follow their route on the maps he had brought with him , which proved to bear only a partial and rather disturbing resemblance to the landscape , like a mild hallucination , he kept up a show of poring over them to try and assuage his guilt at being a mere passenger , unable to share her burden . |
14 | Roy knew that Michael kept up a friendship with them . |
15 | He confronted savages on tropical shores , quelled mutinies on the high seas , and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men . |
16 | Jim had not in ‘ a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men ’ . |
17 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
18 | ‘ Course , in time she came to know her mother 's death was n't an ordinary drowning accident , but she kept up the pretence . |
19 | But Rain kept up the pretence until she climbed the stairs to the studio . |
20 | ‘ That 's the only reason you kept up the pretence ? ’ |
21 | ‘ So — I kept up the pretence of believing you were using drugs , hoping you 'd accept having me around all the time in a bid to prove your own innocence . ’ |
22 | Sometimes the skilled were actually a species of sub-contractor , paid by output , who hired their unskilled assistants at a flat time-wage and saw to it that they kept up the pace . |
23 | So I kept up the act , I opened the door and said his name in a quiet voice and hobbled weakly across the cellar and up the steps . |
24 | And all the time I kept up the visualization . |
25 | She kept up the palazzo for twenty years — two decades . |
26 | Thistle made sure they kept up the pressure on Alex Totten 's men by defeating Falkirk at Fir Hill , with Alan Dinnie scoring the winner . |
27 | He wanted an answer quickly , he was n't used to delay of any kind and kept up the pressure , ‘ Please give me your answer , ’ he implored . |
28 | The Founders and other people within NoS kept up the pressure to go even further down the Equal Opportunities road . |
29 | Even if the US kept up the pressure , would public statements from France about her intentions be enough ? particularly in view of what they had told the US so far ? |
30 | He kept up the pressure with his shoulder to give himself the widest gap possible . |