Example sentences of "keep [verb] up for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day . |
| 2 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |
| 3 | It took me a very long time because I do n't have the kind of face which people immediately commit to memory , but if you keep popping up for thirty-five years , then inevitably people are going to say , ‘ Do n't I know you ? ’ |
| 4 | I was unsure whether to make her Northern , like my own mother , which works wonderfully well with Zelma-like lines , eg. ‘ If you were me , would you wear the blue dress with the beading that everyone 's seen me in , or the new one I 've kept hanging up for two years ? ’ or ‘ Sha n't I buy the beef , then ? |
| 5 | She 'd offered herself to him , offered her girlish hopes and dreams , everything she 'd kept bottled up for ten years . |
| 6 | In terms of legitimacy with the general public such a strategy could also be effective , since the public can be reassured that the really ‘ serious , offenders about whom they are most concerned will be kept locked up for long periods . |