Example sentences of "[that] keep me [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Increasingly I find that this kind of exchange — this candour , this reciprocity — is one of the things that keeps me trundling along .
2 ‘ Sometimes it really gets me down , ’ he admits , ‘ but the thing that keeps me goin' is live performances .
3 It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted …
4 He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’
5 The thing that kept me glued to the TV was the gorgeous Jennifer Capriati with her magnificent looks , great personality and brilliant tennis .
6 It was love that kept me going ; it was ambition to be a poet that fuelled Dana 's labour and yoked it with mine .
7 And it was not helping the poor that kept me going , but the thought of having to admit that I had no stomach .
8 Yet it was not God that kept me going but my critics .
9 The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps .
10 Yet , despite the desperate fatigue and the fear that I might be making a fool of myself , I was seized with a curious elation that kept me going .
11 And it was this that kept me going .
12 ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds .
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