Example sentences of "keep it that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is something quite stunning about ahead of shiny , glossy hair but as we all know , keeping it that way can sometimes prove difficult . |
| 2 | She liked it that way , and she intended keeping it that way . |
| 3 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
| 4 | But it 's a full time job keeping it that way . |
| 5 | Let our enterprise keep it that way , ’ a group of institute members has hired ad agency J Walter Thompson for a three-day campaign in the newspapers . |
| 6 | They can cope with small units and for the present will keep it that way . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd keep it that way , if I was you , ’ McGowan said . |
| 8 | I 've always travelled around by road , and I 'll keep it that way . |
| 9 | I know you have to operate in secret , but we must keep it that way . |
| 10 | See if we can keep it that way for another twenty years . |
| 11 | Let's keep it that way . |
| 12 | I 'd like to say that I do sit on T U C youth forum and the G M B have the strongest , most active youth section so let's keep it that way and give our young members all the support and encouragement they deserve . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's keep it that way . ’ |
| 14 | Let us keep it that way . |
| 15 | So let's keep it that way folks . |
| 16 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 17 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
| 18 | London 's place as a world centre for financial and insurance services is pre-eminent ; we intent to keep it that way . |
| 19 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 20 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 21 | We aim to keep it that way . |
| 22 | In telling me that , until my confirmation , my godparents were , by proxy , responsible for my sins , merely drove me to keep it that way . |
| 23 | It 's something that the facility has assiduously avoided since its inception in 1962 , and most of the faculty is fighting to keep it that way . |
| 24 | We plan to keep it that way . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm happy that she seems to be leading a normal life and we want to keep it that way . ’ |
| 26 | So it 's still a pretty good wildlife area — and we must try to keep it that way . |
| 27 | In this leaflet we want to explain the low risks that lesbians face from HIV and how to keep it that way by practising safer sex and safer drug use . |
| 28 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 29 | It 's one of the CIA 's most closely guarded secrets and I intend to keep it that way . |
| 30 | And I like to keep it that way still if I can , because you can make yourself a lot of work over some small incident sometimes . |