Example sentences of "be [verb] up [conj] keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 2 | And of course , if you look at it er , logically , I mean , for a a woman to be tied up and kept in a room , you know , and kept prisoner all her life you could hardly expect her to be sane even if she did |
| 3 | One solution would be to shut up and keep a low profile ; Jeremiah tried to do that , but … discovered that he could n't stop speaking . |
| 4 | These are cut up and kept separately . |
| 5 | Their reaction , towards the east and to the Gulf war too , has been to pay up and keep their heads down . |