Example sentences of "had keep him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precautions had kept him alive . |
| 2 | It was that kind of care that had kept him alive so long . |
| 3 | I was haunted by Normandin 's remark that knowing people were doing something had kept him alive . |
| 4 | But that was before doctors switched off the ventilator that had kept him alive ever since he ran in terror from one IRA bomb into the full force of another . |
| 5 | She crashed the engine into reverse gear and felt a wave of relief because the shock of her revelation had kept him inert for too long — he would n't catch her . |
| 6 | That bit of knowledge had kept him sweet for weeks . |
| 7 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 8 | He drained it at a draught and threw it back , the dark mood that had kept him silent from Ivrigar falling away . |
| 9 | He recalled the businessman again , saw his face , framed in the night-light outside the small house they had kept him captive in . |