Example sentences of "keep up [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 2 | The rebels are keeping up their siege of several provincial capitals : Luena , Huige , Kuito and Menongue . |
| 3 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 4 | Zen suddenly understood that Bartocci had some move in mind , something which he was keeping up his sleeve for the moment . |
| 5 | for I was always keeping up my sleeve for sort of things we might do as opposed to R and M U have done |
| 6 | I mean I used to have a good go at keeping up your standard in my but er |
| 7 | And particularly well done , , for keeping up your diet with great fortitude . |
| 8 | Elaine and Michael Artus , their savings wiped out , will keep up their fight for compensation . |
| 9 | If we can keep up our concentration for 90 minutes no-one will be able to live with us . |
| 10 | We are proud of three students who trained in one of the pilot courses who are now working with UNHCR in Hong Kong and the way in which they are trying to keep up their standard of interpreting in appalling rat infested conditions which , one hopes , are not likely to be encountered here . |
| 11 | He still needed to encourage supporters in the army and in the civilian population to keep up their pressure on the regime . |
| 12 | She was still exhausted from the night before , shattered from trying to keep up her bravado with Steve , trying not to let slip what she knew and trying to sound enthusiastic over Steve 's business plans for the future which she knew with a certainty she wanted no part of . |
| 13 | She needed to keep up her continuity of male companionship , and humbly thought she had nothing to offer but sex . ) |
| 14 | Add to this that she was a vain woman with a streak of snobbery , but one who had made a friend of Alice Fernie ( who herself was unlikely to pick her friends haphazardly ) ; that she was a man-hunting , high-life-loving girl who had shown no desire to keep up her connection with her old stamping-grounds ; and finally , that she apparently received obscene letters with equanimity , merely folding them up and putting them away like love-letters sentimentally preserved ; add all these things together and you had a woman who was as incomprehensible as women traditionally are . |
| 15 | But the afternoon sunshine seemed less bright , and Folly had to battle to keep up her side of the conversation . |
| 16 | If she found herself liking him — and several times during the course of the afternoon 's decorating she had come perilously close — she could never hope to keep up her side of the battle to keep the club . |
| 17 | In fact , it was hard for her to keep up her end of the conversation . |
| 18 | He invented engagements when he had nothing to do , and ordered La Stampa to keep up his Italian as a surprise for Fred when the present stage was over . |
| 19 | But Cowslip was encouraging and he was determined to keep up his position as the resourceful leader of the newcomers . |
| 20 | Lee Doherty set up Johnston for a right-wing cross and Gorman ghosted between two Bangor defenders to keep up his record of scoring in every round . |
| 21 | ‘ Yarg , ’ said Rincewind and then , because somehow that was hardly enough to keep up his side of the conversation , added , ‘ I do n't think it looks very like me , though . ’ |
| 22 | I decided to keep up my flat in London and find fairly basic lodgings locally . |
| 23 | Mr Gordon said : ‘ If this happens we want to take projects off the shelf to keep up our level of investment , and we would have to look earlier at light rail transport schemes . ’ |
| 24 | But do n't expend too much energy on the ‘ sights ’ during the day — keep up your strength for Berlin 's legendary nightlife . |
| 25 | Onto football , and it 's three games without defeat now for Oxford United who kept up their revival in London last night by drawing two all with Charlton Athletic.But United are still three points adrift at the bottom of the table … |
| 26 | Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day . |
| 27 | BASKETBALL : Arena Colchester kept up their push for a play-off spot in the Mid Essex Gravel League with a 90–43 demolition of a disappointing Bramston Bullets . |
| 28 | In his careful assessment of this process , Wood shows how the existing authorities kept up their Pressure for local interests — essentially for as much of the existing structure as they could maintain intact — until the last possible moment for amendments ( Wood 1976:Ch . |
| 29 | The family eventually moved to Hull but kept up their connection with the race . |
| 30 | In Kosovo , which had been under Serbian direct rule since the end of June [ ibid. ] , the majority Albanian population kept up its campaign of open defiance in the face of an intensifying Serbian crackdown . |