Example sentences of "[adj] keep [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He viewed her with scepticism , and she turned away from him , heavy with the knowledge that he would never believe her , and too tired to keep up the argument . |
| 2 | To be plain , I 'm a bit exhausted , secretly , about the intellectual advantages that are supposed ( by intellectuals ) to accrue from being physically underendowed or peculiar-looking , though it 's possible to keep up the front in public and many a gulled beloved has supposed that this joke of a frame is where my energy comes from . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 're afraid of yourself — afraid you wo n't be able to keep up the fight against the part of you that dares to be human . ’ |
| 4 | Unable to keep up the pretence any longer , she 'd told her friend the whole , disastrous story behind her stay in New York , only withholding her fears about a possible pregnancy as she 'd related the disastrous sequence of events . |
| 5 | Landowner John Davies has been happy to keep up the tradition . |
| 6 | Even their police greatcoats had been insufficient to keep out the chill and the wet of this storm . |
| 7 | In general , in the north , roofs slope more steeply to throw off rain and snow , windows and doorways are larger to let in available light and walls thick to keep out the cold . |
| 8 | Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends . |
| 9 | A ) I would n't do it anyway , even if they were doing four , and B ) it would be difficult to keep up the quality over 65 programmes ! |
| 10 | It would be difficult to keep up the momentum of its campaign and in addition it had created tensions within the two organisations from which most of its members came , the NILP and the republican movement . |
| 11 | Farewell , ’ said Quigley , clearly anxious to keep up the tone necessary for spirit dialogue . |
| 12 | If Vecchi killed Mahoney , as seemed fairly certain , he 'd already got hold of whatever was necessary to keep up the blackmail of Laura Channing . |