Example sentences of "to keep in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's bought an exercise bike to keep in shape . |
| 2 | Many pregnant mums enjoy swimming to keep in shape , but have trouble finding anything stylish to wear in the pool . |
| 3 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 4 | ‘ I am now running more than 40 miles a week to keep in peak fitness ready for the Potteries Marathon . ’ |
| 5 | Well when you 're being paid for doing a job that 's the price you pay if you want to keep in work . |
| 6 | You have to keep in tune with the changes . |
| 7 | They 're hollow , and because of that they 're hard to keep in tune . |
| 8 | We are fit as two fiddles in a ceilidh bank with all this exercise and will no doubt have to pick fights with Big to keep in trim on our return . |
| 9 | He decides to keep in trim |
| 10 | Mr Young said he has had to sell stock he would prefer to keep in order to take advantage of new opportunities . |
| 11 | I know that the hon. Member is trying to keep in order , but he must direct his remarks to the Bill and the revival motion . |
| 12 | If the clearing banks ' balances are above target — that is , if the final clearing on the previous day left the clearers with balances at the Bank above those which they desire to keep in order to meet day-to-day requirements — then there will be a corresponding easing of the market 's cash position . |
| 13 | The goldsmiths learnt from experience what proportion of gold reserves they had to keep in order to meet day-to-day demands for gold withdrawals . |
| 14 | It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair . |
| 15 | After a simple pre-take off litany ( minus the F for flaps ) which should be familiar to any Cessna 150 pilot , the Aircoupe accelerated down Halfpenny Green 's Runway 34 in a formation take-off , becoming airborne in a few hundred feet before I had to throttle back to keep in station with the hard-climbing 172 camera ship . |
| 16 | The Right will clearly expect Mr Hamilton to keep in check some of Mr Heseltine 's more interventionist policies . |
| 17 | George Wigg was a remarkable man but very difficult to keep in check . |
| 18 | In a speech to the Cortes , two months later , he referred to his regime as " providing the authority to keep in check the Spanish tendency to 'egotism and anarchy' " . |
| 19 | Nomura , the biggest , took a 95% drop but just managed to keep in profit . |
| 20 | It can be difficult but necessary at times to carry out this study and to slowly change our own techniques to keep in date with modern developments . |
| 21 | We set off in file moving along a narrow gauge railway in pitch darkness I was trying desperately to keep in contact with the Frenchman in front of me and cursing him when he stopped suddenly , causing me to bang my face on his rucksack . |
| 22 | Mountbatten 's report makes it plain that MI5 and MI6 believed that the KGB would attempt to keep in contact with Blake . |
| 23 | They had a radio truck with them which enabled them to keep in contact . |
| 24 | Most people feel an obligation to keep in contact with their siblings , but beyond that it is regarded as quite proper for relationships to vary in the level of intimacy and the type of support offered ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 ; Allan , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Reservoir roundup Extreme changes in weather culminated in fly anglers at Leighton Reservoir taking great care in fly selection to keep in contact with the fish . |
| 26 | As a particular form of rationality a human being , considered as a total personality , is above all an effort to think things out by having a firm conception of its own nature , as this exists in the physical world , and of what will assist this nature to keep in existence . |
| 27 | In these early stages of re-training , the horse can be expected to keep in rhythm while doing basic school movements , carrying himself on a light contact . |
| 28 | Mark said : ‘ It is important to keep in rhythm when you are training for a race . |
| 29 | Do you think actors need to keep in training once they have graduated from drama school ? |
| 30 | I think most actors are conscious of the need to keep in training . |