Example sentences of "kept [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd kept my involvement with FAKOUM and FAKINTIL and in particular my personal association with Osvaldo and Martinho to myself , but he smelled a rat . |
| 2 | So I 've kept my money . |
| 3 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 4 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 5 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 6 | I have had a Chinese hair-cut which makes me look slightly less like a fierce western barbarian to Chinese eyes , but I have kept my beard . |
| 7 | I paid every attention to her during a long sickness and , a short time before her death , she requested that I should make a mummy of her body , and keep her beside me — I have kept my word . ’ |
| 8 | I have kept my half of the bargain , though I never guessed how costly it would be for me . |
| 9 | I would have kept my presence of mind if the mouse , disturbed by all the commotion , had n't actually jumped into my welly . |
| 10 | I had kept my side of the bargain , my teetotaller 's pledge . |
| 11 | I 've kept my side of the bargain and I expect you to keep yours . ’ |
| 12 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've kept my bra off , ’ said Lucy . |
| 14 | I should have kept my mouth shut because he manoeuvred his machine until it was touching my midriff . |
| 15 | As I blundered on in my explanation I realised he had forgotten all about it and if I had kept my mouth shut the problem need never have arisen . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The supporters know I have always spoken to them in honesty and when I could not give them the truth I have kept my mouth shut . |
| 17 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 18 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 19 | I should have kept my silence , for the only purpose my words served was to demonstrate my disbelief in Billingsley 's outrageous explanation . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've kept my health . |
| 21 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 22 | It is a remarkable sign of mollycoddling that racing has kept its levy at all . |
| 23 | The suggestion that the health authority has not kept its side of the bargain was unfair . |
| 24 | Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour . |
| 25 | The tiny hamlet , carefully restored , has kept its appearance and much of the original spirit thanks to the young couple , Giovanni and Chiara , who own most of it and run things from their little ‘ taverna ’ . |
| 26 | Victoria Wine Chablis 1987 , £6.39 ; this too has kept its crisp , nutty , lemony character . |
| 27 | Harris would have kept her name out of it and she had forgotten , in her agitation , to ask for it not to be revealed . |
| 28 | She was in her night clothes , but , unnoticed by Cati , she had kept her dress on underneath . |
| 29 | Feeling as she did , and knowing he was committed elsewhere , she should have kept her distance . |
| 30 | Jenny Bloor , 26 , has kept her revenge a secret for six years . |