Example sentences of "kept [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her longing for a child was something she kept hidden from others ; she would n't even discuss it with Richard . |
| 2 | More importantly , I began to write poetry myself , for myself , poetry which I showed to no one and kept hidden in an exercise book reserved explicitly for that purpose . |
| 3 | I was n't , as I say , though I do n't delude myself that this area of my life which I kept hidden from Oliver was the story of one triumph after another . |
| 4 | That changes how women feel about themselves and generates a web of activities to pick up the pieces kept hidden when pain is kept private . |
| 5 | And in the afternoon , at the time he was drowned , her mother would call her inside and bolt the door , and they would kneel together and say the rosary for the soul of the father she had never known ; and when all those Hail Mary 's had been said , and the Glory Be 's and the Our Father , and they had made the sign of the Cross together , her mother would pull out the silver Madonna she always kept hidden at her breast and press her lips to it in a way that said everything you needed to know about love and death and being a woman . |
| 6 | Horn had , in a different way , addressed similar issues in his work with ABC , using the 1980s routine of issuing singles in a variety of mixes not just to exploit the fans but also to expose the studio processes and calculations kept hidden when records are presented as ‘ finished ’ goods . |
| 7 | Except for the woman he kept hidden in his heart . |
| 8 | As a result , she had been able to put away a few shillings every week , and over these past three years the shillings had mounted until now the bag of coins which she kept hidden under the bedroom floorboards had swollen to a tidy sum . |
| 9 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 10 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 11 | Every time she thought about how much he kept hidden behind that sexy face of his her blood went cold . |
| 12 | Molly 's mother , Lady Braithwaite , kept her eye on us all , I took over as Secretary/General Dogsbody , and Hila Hyam looked after our funds which ( I am sure she wo n't mind me telling ) she kept hidden in an old teapot ! |
| 13 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 14 | She kept twirling round and round on the grass . ’ |
| 15 | Whether that will upset the balance at all because Lewis was a very important for them he kept stepping in when they wanted to change play . |
| 16 | The only tackiness I 've discovered was in the two paintings kept pressed together . |
| 17 | They wanted to know why she kept producing girls . |
| 18 | I kept seeing these double helices like two snakes winding up an invisible tree , only smaller . |
| 19 | We paused to watch a hawk hunting above one of the islands which splits the Vltava , and I asked Ladislav about the posters I kept seeing in windows . |
| 20 | I thought it funny how I kept seeing dead cows but no live ones . |
| 21 | He kept seeing the streetlights again , those streetlights trembling , as if the whole world was scared . |
| 22 | Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere . |
| 23 | He became impatient , frustrated ; he kept seeing Ray Doyle 's pallid features , reflecting the internal battle for survival that his friend was waging ; he saw the sprawled corpse of Lin Foh , the gut shot Welshman , the wounded CI5 man in the basement . |
| 24 | He kept seeing them over and over in his mind , like an action replay of a not very good football match that only showed the goals . |
| 25 | I kept seeing this leer of his , the leer of a wary yokel , reflected in the numerous little mirrors set around Herta 's marriage crown ( traditional : to ward off evil spirits , and so on ) . |
| 26 | I kept seeing Sergia 's face as she held me in the air looked me over . |
| 27 | I just kept seeing her , in her pigtails and her funny long uniform coat , flying across the road and slamming into a car . |
| 28 | I kept seeing her slamming into the car , and lying in the road , and then I saw all those black nuns floating round her and lifting her up so that her head lolled back , and I was there , wanting to say I was sorry , and her eyes were open and blank and staring right through me . |
| 29 | She kept seeing copperplate graffiti on Stewart 's posters , ‘ You ca n't fight City Hall . ’ |
| 30 | She kept seeing dark , intent eyes , scornful eyes in a starkly handsome face . |