Example sentences of "[noun] to keep [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
| 2 | The latter two conditions proved severe stumbling blocks such that the Norwegians were looking towards alternative means of marketing their hydrocarbon reserves to keep up the revenues to which the Norwegian economy has grown accustomed , well before the Sleipner deal was called off . |
| 3 | Today in a bid to keep down the voles , the Department of Transport and the Forestry Commission began placing Kestrel nesting boxes along the M40 motorway . |
| 4 | It was bitterly cold in the cell-like bedroom and the two girls were huddled on the bed , wrapped in blankets , with cats draped over their feet to keep out the cold . |
| 5 | I can almost hear Riva chewing on the inside of her own cheek to keep back the laughter . |
| 6 | Now that there was no need to keep up the charade of being in love he 'd taken his things along to his old room in another wing . |
| 7 | ‘ Ralf meant no harm , and , in any case , there is no need to keep up the pretence that we 're married . ’ |
| 8 | She told Pam to keep out the shop . |
| 9 | Wholesalers reported an improvement in sales both year-on-year and compared with February , and said they expected volumes to keep up the pace this month . |
| 10 | He handed her a blanket as she had no shawl and made sure it covered her head to keep out the cold . |
| 11 | With only one or two filters , it may be necessary to have adequate storage for filtered water to keep up the supply while filters are out of action . |
| 12 | The small Irishman had just sprinkled the wooden floor with water to keep down the dust and was briskly sweeping the warped boards with a long-bristled broom when Patrick arrived . |
| 13 | Five judges hearing the case wore coats to keep out the cold in the unheated , high-ceilinged room . |
| 14 | PUBLICANS are campaigning on behalf of their customers to keep down the price of the pint in the Republic . |
| 15 | Yet inefficiency in the command structure had hampered his efforts to keep up the pressure on Rommel 's supply lines , and in being ordered to return to base , he felt the grip of official interference . |
| 16 | For more than two weeks prior to Oct. 29 , the Central Bank had been selling an estimated US$50,000,000 in gold each day , in efforts to keep down the gold price ( and thereby to hold down the black-market dollar rate , whose divergence from the official rate provided a barometer of business confidence ) . |
| 17 | A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses … and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs . |
| 18 | From childhood to grave , come rain or shine , joy or sorrow , but for a miracle , you yourself would have worn such garb to keep out the cold , the heat and the rain . |
| 19 | Is it not true that the Government want to divert that money to keep down the poll tax in Wandsworth and Westminster ? |
| 20 | Stirling divided them up into eight patrols of three jeeps each , with orders to keep up the pressure . |
| 21 | When Parliament sat again , the government announced that there would not be a ballot for Private Members ' Bills in the first session , and therefore there was no possibility of homosexual law reform , a decision which prompted the Earl of Arran to reintroduce his Sexual Offences Bill into the House of Lords to keep up the pressure . |
| 22 | Well we said , did you not visit and Morpeth and Annick well we we went round a few castles in that area to keep out the rain . |
| 23 | Ellie sat in the half-light of their neighbour 's drawing room , the dark curtains pulled some of the way across the windows to keep out the sunlight . |
| 24 | ‘ I would make her a long , single-breasted jacket with a nipped-in waist , long sleeves and a stand-up mandarin collar to keep out the cold . |
| 25 | Without indulging in passages of inactive description , he extended to his readers a panoramic view of the world , making good use of the duties performed by the navy in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to keep up the colour and excitement of adventure . |
| 26 | Slime ball supremo Lloyd Grossman scans the boudoirs of the rich and famous in THROUGH THE KEYHOLE , with David Frost on hand to keep up the grease quotient . |
| 27 | And with military police on hand to keep out the hordes of autograph hunters that will dog the tourists ' every footstep over the next 10 weeks , there were no interruptions . |
| 28 | One of the mothers said she felt quite sorry for the police officers involved and was tempted to offer them warm drinks to keep out the cold ! |
| 29 | A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy . |
| 30 | Then he would remember he was being watched by Morris , and he would frown , and stuff his finger into his left ear to keep out the noise of the typewriter . |