Example sentences of "have kept [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Highly ambitious , but not a high achiever , Modesty and a lack of confidence have kept her at the Post Office ‘ instead of earning twice as much as Lord Hanson ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You have kept me in the background of your life for too long now ; I do n't think you will notice when I am not there , ’ she had said . |
| 3 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 4 | Anger that for so long manufacturers have kept us in the dark and industry ’ experts ’ continue to make vital decisions on our behalf . |
| 5 | I would go further and say that we have kept it on the statute book already — there was an opportunity not to retain it during the passage of the emergency provisions Act , but we did retain it then . |