Example sentences of "[noun] to keep house " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had done the shopping and got back and Tessa had cooked the lunch ( as she insisted on doing in her eagerness to keep house for him ) it would almost certainly be something like three o'clock . |
| 2 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 3 | Guy Sterne was just the kind of man to treat women as objects for sexual gratification , and as obliging servants to keep house and serve his meals … |
| 4 | She walked into Cotherstone at seven o clock every morning to keep house for the ‘ Bothy Boys , the lads who looked after the hounds . |
| 5 | And the eldest child , a girl of seventeen , was brought to London to keep house for her uncle , my father 's competitor . |