Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face grew puffy , his arms and legs swelled up , and his fingers turned into purple sausages so that he kept dropping his darts . |
| 2 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 3 | The King , in the Declaration of Breda , had promised that no man would be molested for differences of religious opinion , so long as he kept the peace . |
| 4 | The scent of human food was very strong in the Gruncher 's nostrils , and he must have been thinking that so long as he kept going flat out , he would catch his meal in the end . |
| 5 | She was great with him so long as he kept her occupied . |
| 6 | Mr Robinson could have a wide brief as well , so long as he keeps the chancellor 's confidence . |
| 7 | He can continue to shoot so long as he keeps hitting , up to a maximum of 6 shots per turn . |
| 8 | Tolkien did best when he kept mythic invention on the borderline between literal story and a wider suggestiveness ( Fangorn , Bombadil , Lúthien , Roads and Rings ) ; too conscious an approach to ‘ mythopoeia ’ would have ended only in allegory . |
| 9 | It will affect Alec Stewart 's batting eventually if he keeps wicket regularly and has to concentrate on it . ’ |
| 10 | Partly out of shyness , partly because he kept to himself what he felt he most needed , he would not let it out and some performances suffered . |
| 11 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 12 | Well if he keeps , if he looks after the car and keeps himself right och it 'll be okay but if he 's gon na mess about and wreck the car well he 's he 's no way of getting to work . |
| 13 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 14 | Once across the allotments he walked more openly , even though he kept a wary eye out behind him . |