Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] keep up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the car Evelyn kept up a stream of chatter . |
| 2 | • Four Petersfield drummers kept up a ten-hour drum-a-thon and raised £200 . |
| 3 | In the brief soliloquy following Clarence 's exit Richard keeps up the equivocation : ‘ I will shortly send thy soul to heaven , /If heaven will take the present at our hands ’ ( 119 — 20 ) . |
| 4 | It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar . |
| 5 | Group members keep up a complicated running commentary of grunts , squeaks and squeals , often huddle up together , and sometimes sleep in heaps . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then , eight hours later , Swede Magnus Larsson kept up the pattern of the last nine days by sending 1989 champion Becker packing 6–2 6–3 3–6 7–5 . |
| 8 | That month Coleridge kept up the radical cry by publishing some of his Bristol lectures from earlier in the year , under the title Conciones ad Populum , and in late December he embarked on an altogether bolder enterprise . |
| 9 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 10 | Throughout the day trained police negotiators kept up a dialogue with Mr Say by telephone and at the door of the bungalow . |
| 11 | But through it all Barbara Coleman kept up a hysterical chant of ‘ Murder ! |
| 12 | One anthology for older children stands out : Terry Jones keeps up an unflagging pace of invention in his Fantastic Stories ( Pavilion Pounds 12.99 ) — a rich mix of magic and nonsense , illustrated with usual panache by Michael Foreman . |
| 13 | Factory expansion kept up the demand for machines and power which fed the heavy industries . |
| 14 | Tyrants and tribs with Ewen MacAskill mug Keeping up the stream of insults |
| 15 | But director John Badham keeps up the momentum successfully , carrying the action all the way to an improbably happy end . |