Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to keep [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Students were a group already singled out for special attention in the effort to keep out the ‘ bourgeois liberalism ’ which had influenced their predecessors at the turn of the century . |
| 3 | On the Medway estuary in Kent , raised banks built by the Romans to keep out the sea lasted substantially until the eighteenth century , and the extent of Roman reclamation appears to have been formidable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After the cinema he had tea , walked the streets for an hour , had a couple of Guinnesses in a pub to keep out the sharp evening air , and ate a biriani . |
| 7 | ‘ Ralf meant no harm , and , in any case , there is no need to keep up the pretence that we 're married . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | No party has overall control , but the Labour and Conservative groups have had an agreement to keep out the Liberal Democrats . |