Example sentences of "to keep [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They include ‘ Atomica Melancolica ’ , ‘ Invisible Man ’ , ‘ In Search of the Fourth Dimension ’ and ‘ The Great Masturbator ’ , which the mayor of Figueres unsuccessfully tried to keep for his town . |
| 2 | Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin . |
| 3 | Thorn is a floating voter , but a Labour victory would be better for business , as replacements would be needed for the boxes which Tories wished to keep for old times ' sake . |
| 4 | The contrasting feelings displayed made the picture disturbing ; not something to keep for nearly forty years , let alone frame in silver for display in the drawing-room . |
| 5 | Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep for ever , does the flood-time of rivers endure ? … |
| 6 | PRINT a copy to keep for reference |
| 7 | If care is taken with is preparation , and perhaps photographs inserted , you have a ‘ house handbook ’ to keep for reference or to leave to future owners . |
| 8 | He claims he does n't trust banks , he refuses to open an account , yet he does n't see anything illogical in asking me or Stephen to put things in our safe-deposit box to keep for him . |
| 9 | If she stayed indoors much longer , Murphy would have taken over her tasks and have filled the old beer crates they were to use as laying boxes with straw , and be collecting the scraps from the kitchen , that Dora had reluctantly promised to keep for her . |
| 10 | The information you need to keep for everything you read includes the following . |
| 11 | And there then this was discontinued in they gave this beer to keep for lack of exercise keep them regular . |
| 12 | Secondly , to give the magazine readability , something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference . |
| 13 | Well you could have a look at your best ones and decide which ones you want to keep for best . |
| 14 | He used to keep about half of the pay back for himself . |
| 15 | We tried to keep about a mile in front of the runners , grabbing photographs whenever we could , but it was n't easy . |
| 16 | ‘ Anything you 'd like to have been able to keep about the past ? ’ |
| 17 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 18 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 19 | Will he agree also that it would be a serious mistake to abandon the high standards of justice to which we try to keep as a reaction to these events and the evil in Northern Ireland that took place last Friday ? |
| 20 | She had chosen her words with calculation in an attempt to break the impersonal barrier the Frenchman seemed determined to keep between them . |
| 21 | Judging by the number of trailer accidents on the motorways , it may be wiser to keep off them whenever possible . |
| 22 | People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill . |
| 23 | A covered platform to keep off the worst excesses of the monsoon rain , a ticket office , and a large , bare waiting-room or shed with a stand-pipe outside were all that were provided . |
| 24 | Of course you do n't have to keep off land during the stalking season if you do n't want to , since trespass in Scotland is contained within the civil and not the criminal law . |
| 25 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 26 | The Friar broke off a young oak bough and waved it about his sweating forehead to keep off the flies that followed him in wavering clouds , a floating band of skirmishers that his ceaseless counter-attacks could not drive away . |
| 27 | She sat in a chair with a shawl over her shoulders to keep off the draughts . |
| 28 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 29 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 30 | Of course , the very fact that the Prime Minister made the speech at all , and that he had rejected the advice ‘ to keep off the grass ’ , as he put it , was a powerful reinforcement of the case he was arguing . |