Example sentences of "keeps [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I enjoy it … it keeps me young … |
| 2 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 3 | It 's only my fevered imagination that keeps me warm . |
| 4 | If nothing else it keeps me warm . |
| 5 | It 's my husband Deardrie — he keeps me awake at night , grinding his teeth ! |
| 6 | It keeps me awake . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd be most interested to know what you think keeps me awake . ’ |
| 8 | Well it keeps me awake . |
| 9 | ‘ It keeps me alert , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I 've written two novels and five Plays and God knows how many short stories , and what keeps me alive , even ? |
| 11 | I just do what I 'm told , it keeps me healthy . ’ |
| 12 | I prefer to look like a hungry governess , it keeps me safe from questioners . |
| 13 | It 's fresh , pleasant to use , does n't irritate skin and keeps me fresh all day . |
| 14 | It keeps me busy . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm on my feet a lot of the day — washing and cooking for a man keeps me busy ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Farming keeps me fit too . |
| 17 | ‘ It keeps me fit . ’ |
| 18 | My dog can make me laugh , shows me affection constantly , keeps me company , gives me something to cuddle and stroke , and keeps me fit . |
| 19 | Of course ’ — he offered me his ingenuous grin — ‘ what really keeps me fit is all that prime USDA beef . ’ |
| 20 | I go to a gym regularly and I use to swim for Liverpool so swimming still keeps me fit . |
| 21 | ‘ It keeps me sane . ’ |
| 22 | It keeps me sane down here , gives me somebody to talk to . |
| 23 | It is only that I live in Dresden and that I fight like this that keeps me sane . |
| 24 | He keeps them alive . |
| 25 | They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive . |
| 26 | Many of them have been slain , and those who still pursue their craft do so in large bands , which means for bad hunting , even while it keeps them alive . ’ |
| 27 | The only positive aspect is that since it attracts the seediest sort of tourist , it keeps them all in one place like a gigantic concrete fly-paper , and stops them wandering all over the unspoiled parts of the Highlands looking for go-cart tracks and timeshare chalets . |
| 28 | We will because Jo keeps them all . |
| 29 | The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool . |
| 30 | Some anxiety keeps them distinct , the past properly categorised and preserved , the present carefully renewed . |