Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] keep [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silence quickly overtook him as memory tried just to keep pace with the tumbling images . |
| 2 | But the growth of new industry jobs in many countries has hardly kept pace with the loss of jobs in traditional indigenous industries , and TNCs have directly caused the loss of at least some of these indigenous jobs by forcing domestic competitors out of business . |
| 3 | After five years in the job , she finds her salary has roughly kept pace with inflation . |
| 4 | To go after these converts , the music business — mindful of the lesson of ‘ Urban Cowboy ’ — has cleverly kept hold of the basic country product while working wonders on its packaging . |
| 5 | Hair and clothing saturated , she fought desperately to keep control . |
| 6 | It abandoned incomes policy in the private sector , seeking only to keep pay increases to public employees tightly under control . |
| 7 | ‘ Till then , you 'd best keep y'mouth shut an ’ think o' how y'gonna answer charges o' drugs runnin' , kidnappin' , unlawful imprisonment an' aggravated assault … maybe even murder ! ’ |
| 8 | William walked swiftly to keep stride with Hari . |
| 9 | ‘ How you gwine ter keep deh Possum in his feedbox when I brings in deh Chinas and blackmen ? ’ |
| 10 | Exercise also keeps body fat from accumulating . |
| 11 | All subjects who had demesne woods within the royal forest were bound to appoint sworn woodwards to keep vert and venison in them . |
| 12 | ‘ My pulse , as yours , doth temperately keep time ’ , OMF iv , 16 . |
| 13 | With these he had efficiently kept water flowing through his ditches . |
| 14 | William Bayles Hauxwell fought mightily to keep pace with the ceaseless tide of farmwork at a time when mechanization and all the labour-saving devices now taken for granted in agriculture were but a distant dream in Baldersdale . |
| 15 | This system of local government had much fine work to its credit but it was generally accepted that its structure had not changed enough to keep pace with the changing social pattern of travel to work , shopping and holiday areas . |
| 16 | I 'm amazed that this country appears so stable as inflation , they say , has gone up 250% ( ! ) in the last 3 years and wages have only kept pace with about half of that , and only yesterday a newspaper posted on the canteen wall announced a massive corruption deal whereby the country 's leaders made 81 billion cruzeiros out of currency exchange . |
| 17 | We must all fight together to keep thet |
| 18 | I have deliberately kept consideration of the death or prolonged absence(s) of a parent apart from that of parental removal by separation or divorce , since one would not wish to confound the two in their consideration . |
| 19 | Budgets for prisons have hardly kept pace with inflation , and , despite occasional lip-service commitment to reform , the policy of the British before 1947- to run gaols as cheaply as possible — has not changed significantly in practice ( Baxi 1982 ; Khan and Chilad 1982 ; Bhatacharya 1985 ; Gokhale and Sohoni 1988 ) . |
| 20 | The 1979 Royal Commission on the National Health Service estimated that an annual growth of 1 per cent in public expenditure was required simply to keep pace with demographic pressures . |