Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [conj] keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst he was laid up for six weeks in Middlesex Hospital , Minton visited him regularly and kept his family in Northumberland informed as to his progress . |
| 2 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 3 | Do we send them back or keep them here ? |
| 4 | Correctionalist criminologists , of all varieties , join all the other agents of social control that capitalism utilises to patch itself up and keep its exploitative machinations justified and operational . |
| 5 | The snake caught him again savagely round the legs with its jaws , but he managed to tear himself away and keep running until he finally passed out from shock and blood-loss . |
| 6 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 7 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 8 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 9 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 10 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 11 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 12 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 13 | Please read it carefully and keep it in a safe place . |
| 14 | weapons , and it was the dagger and you could n't work it out and kept on asking |
| 15 | Why not use it today and keep it handy for future checks ? |
| 16 | ‘ There were times when I just wanted to give up and catch the next train home , ’ said Bill , ‘ but it was the thought of all the people at home praying for us and wishing us well that kept us going . ’ |
| 17 | I thought back over all the good times — all the laughs we had shared — and all the wonderful things they had done to try to build me up and keep me going . |
| 18 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 19 | He would have settled us down and kept us calm , and there is no doubt that we would have won , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 20 | I think they 're bound to respond to that , I mean , as you turn it over and keep going on . |
| 21 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully the moment the wheel touches the ground and then keep it straight and keep the wings level . |
| 22 | He took it down and kept it beside his bed . |
| 23 | mm , just I just rub it down and to keep it moving another salt for a week or two in it , the icy roads , bound to put salt down are n't they ? |
| 24 | Bonkers ; let us put him away and keep him under sedation and have done with him , " That was the way their minds worked . |
| 25 | If you have stress incontinence this exercise will help if you do it regularly and keep it up for several months : |
| 26 | At this point Mr Wilson the Strict Deputy Head arrived ( every school with more than one Deputy Head has a ‘ Strict ’ one for telling you off and keeping order in assemblies , and a ‘ Friendly ’ one for helping you when you 've been bullied ) . |
| 27 | Like that to chain her up and keep all the food away . |
| 28 | is full , but throw it out and keep |
| 29 | ‘ Now take it out and keep a firm hold on it . |
| 30 | My father keeps wondering whether to bring them in or keep them out . |