Example sentences of "[noun] kept up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie kept up a relentless pace during the tour , which took her to Newcastle , Manchester and Liverpool before one appearance in Scotland at Edinburgh 's Playhouse Theatre . |
| 2 | Another 17-year-old girl kept up a regular correspondence with her natural mother and went to see her once or twice a year referring to her as an ‘ auntie ’ . |
| 3 | • Four Petersfield drummers kept up a ten-hour drum-a-thon and raised £200 . |
| 4 | The anti-aircraft gunners kept up a steady fire , claiming nine aircraft shot down , including the Bf110 which crashed near Takali , and four other aircraft damaged . |
| 5 | But his best work is in the past , whereas Greene kept up a continuous output over many years — there 's nobody like that now . |
| 6 | That month Coleridge kept up the radical cry by publishing some of his Bristol lectures from earlier in the year , under the title Conciones ad Populum , and in late December he embarked on an altogether bolder enterprise . |
| 7 | Birds were always with them ; robins watched with bright eyes and sang as they passed ; wrens flew suddenly and low from branch to bush ; great tits rang out their bell-notes unseen from the tree-tops ; tree-creepers trickled headlong and caterwise down the creviced trunks of the oaks ; woodpeckers kept up a constant drum-rattle on the hollow branches , the sound coming now from the right , now from the left , now in front , now behind ; wood-pigeons wooed one another in secret leafy recesses , comforting , encouraging , cajoling ; rooks sprang upwards cawing into the blue sky as they passed beneath their nests ; and higher still , up towards the sun , they caught occasional glimpses of great birds circling , buzzards , kites , eagles . |
| 8 | Wednesday kept up the relentless pressure after the break and Chris Bart-Williams made it five in the 61st minute . |
| 9 | But through it all Barbara Coleman kept up a hysterical chant of ‘ Murder ! |
| 10 | Keith kept up a brisk pace , glad that it was a full moon . |
| 11 | The soldiers kept up a continuous fire . |
| 12 | Witnesses said armed soldiers kept up an overnight siege at Kinshasa 's People 's Palace conference centre because the notes used to pay them are said to be cursed and are almost impossible to spend . |
| 13 | The imperial schism had its repercussions on the separate kingdoms of Europe with whom the pope kept up a ceaseless round of correspondence , despatching legatine missions in his concern for ensuring Christian rulership and furthering his policies . |