Example sentences of "[vb pp] to keep [pron] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or would the West cry foul , and declare that Mr Gorbachev can not , after all , be trusted to keep his word that the Brezhnev doctrine is dead , and that he will not interfere in the Warsaw Pact countries ? |
| 2 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 3 | The protests flew thick and fast that McMillan should have been allowed to keep his crown because he was , mystifyingly , three rounds ahead on two judges ' scorecards and , more realistically , one in front on another . |
| 4 | I found a friend from Fulham Church , a qualified Chemist who had been allowed to keep his shop because of its value to the community , and the fact that he had an invalid wife . |
| 5 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 6 | COMMUTERS from Essex to London have been urged to keep their cool as they as face up to today 's nightmare journey to work caused by the national one-day rail strike . |