Example sentences of "keep it for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the supplier has no guarantee of the business , it has an advantage and , once it has the business , the firm can be fairly sure it will keep it for a long time . |
| 2 | I shall keep it for a bit longer Clare |
| 3 | Yes … take your time , we will keep it for the Wednesday edition . |
| 4 | John wo n't mind , let's keep it for the night , and take it back tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 6 | Gollum was once a hobbit who came across the Ring by chance and keeps it for a long time . |
| 7 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 8 | A chap named , ooh , Harry , he used to keep it for a long while , and er then of course , th the post office was on the er , opposite side of the road to where it is now . |
| 9 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 10 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 11 | And obviously we would want to take money out of reserves , our original amendment took one point three million pounds out of reserves and it 's interesting to see now that you 're suggesting almost that figure again and yet for years you 've been telling us you ca n't take this money out of the reserves , er you know we had to keep it for a rainy day . |
| 12 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |
| 13 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 14 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
| 15 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 16 | Then you can either put it back on to the soil it came from or , before doing this , keep it for a day or two in a small container lined with damp paper tissue . |
| 17 | ‘ All right , Sandy , keep it for the wedding . |
| 18 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 19 | I keep it for the children 's medicine drink . ’ |
| 20 | He kept it for a talisman , taking it with him in his pocket when he married Maria Filippa , and on the boat when they crossed the ocean to New York . |
| 21 | She held my hand steady to bring the cigarette to the flame and kept it for a few seconds longer than she had to . |
| 22 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 23 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 24 | I used to go and fetch the , the butter from do n't bring margarine my father used to say we put better stuff on our machines so er I used to go to for my father kept foul , I used to fetch a peck of , bushel of this and a bushel of , you know all the various things that , bran and stuff for the foul yes , yes and I believe a lady , she has , she 's only recently died and but she kept it for a long long while Elsie her name was . |
| 25 | It was n't easy to make a show with such diverse voices pull together and some of what I wrote did n't fit in ( I kept it for The Pie of Damocles later that year though ) . |
| 26 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |