Example sentences of "[verb] to keep it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
2 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
3 | I still have a job , and I 'd like to keep it that way . |
4 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |
5 | But while the show is now safely up and running in the theatre , there 's still plenty to do to keep it that way . |
6 | She had a pretty shrewd idea that Desmond had only the haziest notion of how much could be expected from the various books , and she had intended to keep it that way . |
7 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
8 | I 'm now my own man , and I intend to keep it that way . ’ |
9 | The latest audience research indicates that our audience is still growing and we intend to keep it that way . ’ |
10 | So it 's still a pretty good wildlife area — and we must try to keep it that way . |
11 | The majority verdict is that Seve 's handiwork is difficult but fair , and tournament director , Andy McFee , aims to keep it that way by utilising a variety of tees , including some of the ladies ' , to strike the right balance . |
12 | Copses and woodland which farmers might destroy if they were n't subsidised to keep it this way . |
13 | Copses and woodland which farmers might destroy if they were n't subsidised to keep it this way . |
14 | Section er , I was very surprised indeed that er Hilary asking for a review of the service because in fact all one 's experience and I am sure as well tells us that this is a success story , it is something that petition after petition that we 've asking to keep it that way , shows that it is one of the services that the County provides which is very much appreciated by the recipients and we ca n't say that in all County Councils ' services but you can say it about er the section seventeen and I think you ought to acknowledge that Chairman . |
15 | We try to keep it low temperature . |
16 | Why not jot your suggestion on a post-card and send it to the Sports Desk , The People , 33 , Holborn Circus , London EC1P 1DQ.There 'll be a special gift for the best suggested dialogue — try to keep it clean folks ! |
17 | It 's something that the facility has assiduously avoided since its inception in 1962 , and most of the faculty is fighting to keep it that way . |
18 | Campaigners fighting to keep it open fear children will die if the ward — one of the world 's leading child cancer centres — is moved to another hospital without Bart 's expertise . |
19 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
20 | We aim to keep it that way . |
21 | People choose to keep their yachts on the Hamble , probably because it is the pre-eminent yachting river in the country and we wish to keep it that way . |
22 | The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy |
23 | As far as decent environments were concerned , they were the ‘ haves ’ and they wanted to keep it that way . |
24 | We plan to keep it that way . |