Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [pers pn] kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 3 | Running behind him just seemed effortless and when I kicked he did n't go with me and he gradually dropped back as I kept the pace up . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And does n't it reassure you to know she told me about coming here when she kept it from her family ? ’ |
| 5 | And I would n't even go in because I do n't think my dad 's making me go in except she kept me , and all behind because we did n't do our homework and she said right see me tomorrow , |
| 6 | The lift went down and it kept on doing it . |
| 7 | Then I was put on some sort of medication to help me calm down because I kept on getting knotted up , getting uptight . |
| 8 | Because he went out and he kept , when he went to do his exercises . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They 'd been engaged twice but she kept breaking it off because he could n't hold a job down . |
| 11 | Started to snow outside and I kept on laughing . |