Example sentences of "keep [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime she 's been banned from keeping animals for the rest of her life . |
| 2 | Since Death in Venice is also to be performed , would it not have been better to keep Grimes for the new house and to have included a Rossini opera as a nostalgic as well as topical reminder of golden evenings ? |
| 3 | She walked into Cotherstone at seven o clock every morning to keep house for the ‘ Bothy Boys , the lads who looked after the hounds . |
| 4 | Robin Smith kept wicket for the five overs remaining , Stewart having been among those hit painfully on the ankle or foot while batting . |
| 5 | In his days as an amateur , Ronnie Simpson kept goal for the Great Britain team which finished fourth in the 1948 football tournament . |
| 6 | Although two other Murrays , the unrelated Deryck of Trinidad and David of Barbados , have kept wicket for the West Indies no one from Grenada has yet earned a Test place . |
| 7 | Her father had been a history master at the local grammar school and Dotty had kept house for the old man until his death , when she sold their home , bringing some of the furniture , all the books , four cats , two dogs and a collection of medicinal herbs to her new home . |