Example sentences of "[been] keeping [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 2 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 3 | I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria . |
| 4 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 5 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 6 | SHE HAD BEEN keeping quiet . |
| 7 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 8 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 9 | They had to look only as far as France to learn how pernicious are the effects of unlocking the archives after a period when the secret police have been keeping open house . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |