Example sentences of "[noun pl] kept up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Four Petersfield drummers kept up a ten-hour drum-a-thon and raised £200 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The soldiers kept up a continuous fire . |
| 5 | 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 . |