Example sentences of "they could keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or they could keep their old loans but with new guarantees , at the same time providing new money worth 25% of their exposure 's value . |
| 2 | For the most part , the fast men were used in short bursts to conserve their strength and responded well to this ; but when the occasion demanded , as on the final day at Lord 's in 1963 , they could keep going for hour after hour just because the captain asked them to . |
| 3 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 4 | Maybe at the end of the final year they could keep the money to go away with instead of spending it . |
| 5 | They could keep up between four and five miles in each hour only for so long , for even strong and accustomed muscles tired . |
| 6 | ‘ So they could keep an eye on it , I assume . |
| 7 | And they had decided that they could keep more control by financing the paper with capital raised from ‘ the movement ’ . |
| 8 | Afterwards Brewer said he could see Auckland holding the shield for as long as they could keep together their very strong scrum of Olo Brown , Sean Fitzpatrick , Steve McDowell , Michael Jones , Gary Whetton , Robin Brooke , Mark Carter and Zinzan Brooke — All Blacks all . |
| 9 | At least this way they could keep an eye on the supply source . |
| 10 | But the partisan warfare went on : Walter Long and his PPS , Sir William Bull ( who had been on the Conference himself ) , reacted angrily to complaints from the agents and suggested that the professional organizers wanted to keep the system as complicated as possible so that they could keep their pay and privileges . |
| 11 | D' you know , they could keep me in here right up until the baby 's born . " |
| 12 | One of the concessions Bevan made to the consultants in 1946 was that they could keep their separate private pay-beds in NHS hospitals . |
| 13 | The children had to stay within close reach of each other and the hosts had to take two children so they could keep each other company . |
| 14 | No they could keep in power or remove him in turn as the say fit . |
| 15 | These jobs also enabled the mixed-race people to band together into tightly knit communities , where they could keep their existence constantly before the white masters whose earlier sexual peccadillos had brought them into being . |
| 16 | When , in a major exercise , Rank Xerox switched a number of specialised staff to operating as teleworking freelance consultants ( involving setup costs of just £1,300 per head and achieving savings in office expenses of £17,500 per worker in the first year of operation ) , sending instructions by electronic mail was not enough : a ‘ gossip line ’ was introduced so that they could keep up on office news . |
| 17 | In 864 a royal assembly at Pîtres near Rouen dealt with the problem ( without indicating how widespread it was ) of migrant wage-workers in vineyards : clearly some landlords were short of labour at least at harvest-time , and to persuade such migrants to return to their original farms were willing to reassure them that they could keep their earnings . |
| 18 | If Edinburgh could match the offer by June 1990 they could keep Lizzie . |
| 19 | The pageant was so big that they could keep far apart from each other without trying . |
| 20 | President , before I start could you er , please ask erm , at the doors if they could keep quiet a bit because delegates ca n't hear some of the debates . |
| 21 | From now on , they could keep plodding behind me , dogging at my heels , convinced I have a bone to throw to them . |
| 22 | According to evidence at a murder trial , the police found the weapon when they freed the alleged murderer so they could keep him under secret surveillance . |
| 23 | The thing is maybe they could keep their extraordinary lifestyle to themselves that way rather than imposing it on other people |
| 24 | Eleven o'clock , there were n't restrictions then on , they could keep open as long as they liked , no restrictions on , on time , and er as I say their own place you know it really it was picturesque , I thought in since erm I contacted you I 've been thinking how , what I could help with and er what I could still think about , and er it was really a sight because to walk and it always used to be crowded , well it was one of the best markets round here and er people used to go off and from Bloxwich and er although there 's a good market at Walsall there was n't a Bloxwich market then sadly for years and years , but erm and then if you went to Wolverhampton you got to walk through Windsfield you got to er walk everywhere you went then and except on a Saturday night when the wagonettes used to run on a Saturday but it was amazing to see the girl behind the range now controlling |
| 25 | They could keep their house . |