Example sentences of "[verb] keep up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the German side a few bombs were dropped to keep up the pretence , but they were left strictly alone by fighter aircraft , of course . |
| 2 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 3 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 4 | So far the Musée Rodin has kept up a pretence of knowing nothing about the case while in reality keeping an extremely close eye on every aspect of it . |
| 5 | And the brothel-owners paid for the restoration of village temples and schools to help keep up the supply of young girls . |
| 6 | ‘ Got to keep up the image , have n't we ? |
| 7 | ‘ Because , ’ said Riley through gritted teeth , ‘ I was told to keep up the pressure on him . ’ |
| 8 | The EC clearly intends to keep up the pressure . |
| 9 | While conceding that this is an area of ‘ great difficulty ’ , Bob Cooper intends to keep up the pressure on the security forces to improve their fair employment record . |
| 10 | ‘ She was afraid of what he might do when she told him she was n't going to keep up the pretence any longer and everything she did in future was to be sold as her own work . ’ |
| 11 | And he vowed to keep up the fight against the benefit cheats . |
| 12 | More space was needed to keep up the increase in numbers . |
| 13 | Canvassing is undertaken to keep up the spirits of the candidate . |
| 14 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 15 | So despite the payment reinstatement of the sacked journalists is still no nearer but some intend to keep up the pressure to get their jobs back . |
| 16 | An errant neurotic , failing to keep up the maintenance payments to support his own creation . |
| 17 | I had to race to keep up the momentum but I was forced to rest five minutes in every twenty . |
| 18 | ‘ I doubt if he could have kept up the masquerade for that long . ’ |
| 19 | Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates . |
| 20 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 21 | So of course you rifle the fridge and the larder for signs of malpractice , and even though you 're a wholemeal bread fan ( do you make a fuss over it at hotels in the morning ? ) and you try to keep up a regime of healthy , dull , fresh fruit eating , the evidence is all there : tinned baked beans ; deep frozen specialist pork sausages ; stilton . |
| 22 | Meanwhile Mars has pledged to keep up the pressure on Walls , with no let-up in its campaign to woolovers of ice cream . |
| 23 | With the long summer evenings and school holidays about to start … the Police are pledged to keep up the pressure against the joyriders |
| 24 | A Squadron certainly did keep up the pressure and achieved the desired result , mining and ambushing merrily . |
| 25 | Brix Smith certainly means to keep up the progress : ’ I 've considered dyeing my hair brown to avoid being seen as another of today 's toy blonde singers . ’ |
| 26 | If the borrower could no longer afford to keep up the payments , the longer he stayed in the home the more the interest bill mounted . |
| 27 | The Rector , who could not afford to keep up the grounds , had no need of such a large house himself , and Charlotte decided to rent it . |
| 28 | The rebels have vowed to keep up the pressure on Mr Cristiani until his government agrees to negotiation that would lead to full guarantees for human rights and civil liberties , as well as the dismissal of several high-ranking army officers . |
| 29 | When they met at parties Nigel continued to keep up a surface friendship . |
| 30 | And Mr Major was determined to keep up the morale . |