Example sentences of "had keep [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that at primary school we had to keep a diary , and from time to time someone would be picked out to face the class and read it aloud . |
| 2 | ‘ We felt we had to keep the name to avoid any insult , ’ says Vinogradov . |
| 3 | I had to keep the wingtip in sight of the ground to avoid getting disorientated . |
| 4 | They had to keep the river streams all flowing and if there was any deluge of rain and stones they would have to keep all the pools in good order and they would |
| 5 | One minute it was left-to-right , the next right-to-left , so you had to keep the ball low . |
| 6 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 7 | And then you you used to have a blow lamp to heat it up and after that you you erm put it on half compression and you were turning one of the big flywheels round until it it started and you had to keep the blowlamp on it . |
| 8 | I still found I had to keep the Contour and Treble rotaries backed completely off , and the Bass right up to get anything like a ‘ normal ’ lead guitar sound . |
| 9 | He had to keep the prices up . |
| 10 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 11 | Police had to keep the road where the accident happened in Farnborough , Hants , closed while the wreckage was cleared . |
| 12 | ‘ Although I terminated my business , I had to keep the photocopier going , ’ says Anne Orchardson . |
| 13 | I had to keep the hurt to myself . |
| 14 | I had to keep the fire going for example and I had to go and get er some e Eccles cakes for Uncle Jonathan for his tea . |
| 15 | Mr Wormwood did n't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long , even when putting sawdust in gear-boxes and fiddling the mileages of cars with his electric drill . |
| 16 | It was using what assets it had to keep the group afloat . |
| 17 | We had to keep the house clean ; Dada liked a clean house . |
| 18 | I had to keep the house going and look after the kids . |
| 19 | But make sure you do n't miss : as most World War One biplanes had no bomb ports , the pilot had to keep the bomb in the cockpit with him and drop it by hand ! |
| 20 | ‘ That was believed important , for with the Enchantment useless , we knew that we had to keep the Wolfline alive for as long as we could . |
| 21 | It also had to keep the numbers of capped authorities to manageable proportions to prevent civil servants from being overloaded by the administrative burden of determining — and redetermining in the event of appeal — rate levels under the selective scheme . |
| 22 | We now had to keep the children confined to a thin corridor of safety , hemmed in as they were both by insects and reptiles . |
| 23 | We had to keep the tower of the Abbey and the belfry of the Free Church exactly in line to stay on our course . |
| 24 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 25 | They went to cabin 10 that night ; Jane because nothing would have kept her away ; Lucinda because she had nothing better to do ; and Vi reluctantly , because someone had to keep an eye on Lilith and her peculiar ways and maybe , though the eldest of the trio would never have admitted it , because she was more than a little curious about the birthday message . |
| 26 | Someone had to keep an eye on him . |
| 27 | Engineers and manufacturers of the nineteenth century had to keep an eye open for the rather too-well-informed casual visitor , making notes and sketches of what was going on . |
| 28 | ‘ But I had to keep an eye on things . ’ |
| 29 | Well we used to take it in our stride , I mean I grew up with an old Victorian house with potent fires and you had keep the fires going either wise in the winter it was bitterly cold , it was nice and cool in the summer coming out of the heat . |
| 30 | He was reminded of his childhood and of his father 's farm ; they too had kept a couple of goats . |