Example sentences of "to keep off [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wore large cotton hats to keep off the sun , and gloves to protect their hands from the corn . |
| 2 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 3 | People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill . |
| 4 | His tone was grave , but there was a twinkle in his eye as though , heaven forbid , he knew why she could n't seem to keep off the subject of his personal relationships . |
| 5 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 6 | It was a very hot still afternoon and May had swathed her head in garments to keep off the glare . |
| 7 | Of course , the very fact that the Prime Minister made the speech at all , and that he had rejected the advice ‘ to keep off the grass ’ , as he put it , was a powerful reinforcement of the case he was arguing . |
| 8 | Sometimes we made shelters with leaves and branches to keep off the rain . |
| 9 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |