Example sentences of "keep [prep] the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can manage it , you can keep on the go all day , hitting winners on the tennis court or flying the British flat at water polo ( let's hope we do better this year ? ) , or competing in the Irene Palace swimming Olympics . |
| 2 | However , it 's easier if you solder the smaller parts first and work upward in size ; the smaller parts are much more difficult to keep in the board prior to soldering if the board has to be balanced on larger components . |
| 3 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 4 | Keep on the move all the time . " |
| 5 | Modern tournament fighters keep on the move all the time . |
| 6 | I got one side and then you turn it over , you keep to the line all the time you know , so the two cuts meet |
| 7 | But Faussett failed to appreciate the true significance of his discoveries ; in his journal , kept for the years 1757 to 1773 and later published as Inventorium Sepulchrale under the editorship of Charles Roach Smith in 1856 , the remains were attributed to the period of Roman occupation , while Smith preferred a purely British origin . |
| 8 | Each day 's performances began with a sacrifice and libations ; the priest of Dionysus sat in the centre front of the audience ; the image of the god , normally kept in the temple adjacent to the theatre , had been carried in procession and placed in the theatre ; in the centre of the orchestra was an altar . |
| 9 | MO JOHNSTON , Everton 's £1.5 million outsider , will be kept in the cold this weekend by former butcher 's boy Stuart Barlow . |
| 10 | ‘ The secret was kept in the way most secrets are kept , which is to say that although the truth did not get out , something got out . |
| 11 | In many parish churches a parchment scroll or tablet of wood , inscribed with the names of those who had requested obits or provided chantries , was kept on the wall near to the high altar . |
| 12 | 8 ( 1 ) In a contract to which this section applies for the letting of a house for human habitation there is implied , notwithstanding any stipulation to the contrary — ( a ) a condition that the house is fit for human habitation at the commencement of the tenancy , and ( b ) an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord fit for human habitation during the tenancy . |
| 13 | In the Conservative leadership contest , Douglas Hurd , the foreign secretary , made reform of the hours kept by the Commons one of his themes . |