Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 2 | They were staring at me and kept staring . |
| 3 | I would 've liked to have looked after me and kept an eye on the rest with Paul . |
| 4 | Chefs like myself have referred to them and kept them at hand since they were written over 10 years ago , along with books such as Jane Grigson 's on vegetables . |
| 5 | Now , a number of years later , I have seen some of God 's plans for them come about and realize how much he has cared for them and kept them safe . |
| 6 | With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies ’ ( Eph. 2:14 , 15 ) . |
| 7 | So the cat and the buzzard were added to their company , and the young lord looked after them all , fed them and kept them warm . |
| 8 | But like that A lot of families had them and kept them just for the family . |
| 9 | It was she that kept the thing going . |
| 10 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 12 | I just went up to him and kept on kissing him and begged : ‘ No kill , no kill . ’ |
| 13 | He ran after her , calling her name , but she ignored him and kept running until she reached the road . |
| 14 | Bob took it away from him and kept it . |
| 15 | We did not like the look of him and kept walking . |
| 16 | He took off , wheeled round with the sun behind him and kept low over the trees . |
| 17 | The eighteenth-century historian and topographer Freiherr Johann von Valvasor describes the life of the frontiersmen : ‘ Whenever a man was working in the fields he always carried his arms with him and kept a horse saddled near his plough . |
| 18 | But she resisted the urge to turn and glance at him and kept her eyes fixed straight ahead . |
| 19 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 20 | and was ashamed of her and kept her down |
| 21 | She had worked for the Underground movement , involved in forging passports and papers for people trying to escape across the Channel ; had been discovered but saved from death by a German , who had raped her and kept her as his own prisoner . |
| 22 | She stopped next to him but he ignored her and kept on walking . |
| 23 | The giant nanny had unlocked the door for him but kept in the background and gave me no sign of recognition . |
| 24 | She heard him but kept her back turned so that she would have his arms around her and then she could wriggle inside them to face him . |
| 25 | He did n't seem to hear her but kept repeating , ‘ All right . |
| 26 | They taught me to ollie and stuff and I really liked it and kept going and never stopped . |
| 27 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 28 | Cassie was fond of it and kept it dust free and well polished . |
| 29 | made an aeroplane very quickly first which I think was his big mistake because he then tried to explain to how to make it and kept wanting to touch her aeroplane |
| 30 | When the phone rang , he answered it but kept his eyes on Sophie . |