Example sentences of "[noun] to keep [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A sitting tenant who came with the greenhouses … and is doing his bit to keep down the slugs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She sat and watched it all slip past , and thought how she must persuade Murphy to let her cook up the hens ’ mash on the saddle-room boiler , for Dora would hate her to do it in the kitchen , and how she would need a galvanized bucket and an old ladle and a door on the old donkey shed in the orchard to keep out the foxes . |