Example sentences of "[pers pn] kept up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we staggered up the path like a couple of drunks , I kept up a desperate , bright flow of conversation , to mask the slowness of our steps . |
| 2 | I kept up a close correspondence with my parents , partly because I knew that they missed me , and partly from natural inclination and affection . |
| 3 | She kept up a running commentary as she chased him 50 yards across Lawrence Road before collapsing in a pool of blood . |
| 4 | She looked like a little black chattering chimney pot , for as the smoke rose up through her veils she kept up a constant conversation . |
| 5 | She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham , Northumberland . |
| 6 | They kept up a twenty-four-hour vigil outside Coleherne Court , and plagued her at the kindergarten . |
| 7 | All the way out to Keller 's house they kept up a ceaseless flow of questions about the Channings and the bruises on my head . |
| 8 | With Simon Smith newly-installed on the drum stool , they kept up the relentless touring pace in 1988 and found themselves playing sizeable venues like London 's Town And Country Club . |
| 9 | Yesterday 's annual results showed that it kept up the good work in 1991 . |
| 10 | He stood up on his chair all the way through lunch , with the gravy running down his great red face on to his bib and flying off the spoon he was waving on to other people 's clothes ; and in his loud , pharyngitic voice he kept up a perpetual background noise of questions and comments . |
| 11 | He kept up a non-stop stream of words against the patter of the raindrops beating against the skylight , to Modigliani 's silent exasperation . |
| 12 | As he stood there , waving them past like a cop directing traffic , he kept up a steady monologue of encouragement . |
| 13 | Resigning herself to the inevitable , she walked quietly alongside him as he kept up a running commentary on all they passed or saw . |
| 14 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |