Example sentences of "[verb] kept [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | She does n't do anything special to look after the distinctive voice which has kept her in the music business for an astonishing 33 years . |
2 | Rye praises the IT she has received : ‘ The project has kept me off the streets and taught me useful things like carpentry . |
3 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
4 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
5 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
6 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
7 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
8 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
9 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
10 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
11 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |
12 | I could view the progress of the race from where I was standing , just before the home straight , and I could see that Elliott and Daley had kept us in the hunt . |
13 | ‘ Candy 's kept me in the picture . ’ |
14 | He 's got he 's got an excellent department , and he 's kept it within the bank 's old fashioned , nineteenth century guidelines . |
15 | Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ . |
16 | ‘ You have kept me in the background of your life for too long now ; I do n't think you will notice when I am not there , ’ she had said . |
17 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
18 | Anger that for so long manufacturers have kept us in the dark and industry ’ experts ’ continue to make vital decisions on our behalf . |
19 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |