Example sentences of "keep house " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have seemed strange to have found herself keeping house for my grandfather and his daughters . |
| 2 | You 're feeling very languid and lazy and not in the mood for ‘ keeping house ’ and barking at all-comers . |
| 3 | Sandra had virtually given up her career to devote herself to the task of keeping house and raising a family , though , in that respect , the relationship did not mature as she had hoped . |
| 4 | The father earning a living or the mother keeping house could rightly be listed but try listing much more specific , yet practical , expressions of love . |
| 5 | He lived in great style with a hundred servants , keeping house ‘ right bounteously ’ — in 1554 his military equipment at Bletchingley alone filled seventeen wagons . |
| 6 | She was educated at home by a German governess ; then , after keeping house for her brothers , in 1886 she went to Newnham College , Cambridge , where she and another were the first women to gain first-class honours in the Cambridge moral sciences tripos in 1889 . |
| 7 | ‘ Mrs Choak , how long have you been keeping house for your brother ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm keeping house , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Her only diversion , apart from keeping house , looking after her children and entertaining my father 's business associates , was in books . |
| 10 | The town therefore contains a wide variety of household employment structures , ranging from those where both married partners are in full-time employment , through part-time employment , and unemployment , to non-employment ( this last including sick , retired , keeping house , caring for dependents , etc . ) . |
| 11 | After a year or two of keeping house for Hugh , she put her foot down and said it was ridiculous not to use her money . |
| 12 | The Stanley Powerlock , the world 's best-selling pocket measuring tape , is being given away in miniature to help keep house , car and office keys easily to hand . |
| 13 | ‘ That I should go and keep house for Charles in Ipswich ? |
| 14 | She could shoot straight , mind , straighter than most men but she could no more keep house than fly to the moon … ’ |
| 15 | She simply could n't keep house — not that that mattered so much — but she could n't cope at all with the children . |
| 16 | You 'd do better to go and find someone beautiful and lively to marry who can cook and keep house and look after this little paradise of yours . ’ |
| 17 | Aunt Tinty , an amiable half-wit , keeps house for him and sings sentimental songs in the gloaming ; her daughter , Margaret , is a heavily pregnant , rather mannish woman doctor whose husband is far away ; her son , Tom , is an eternal and drunken medical student , engaged in a squalid affair with the woman at the village pub . |
| 18 | Former policeman Grant , a sociology student when Julie met him six years ago , stays at home , looks after Maisie and keeps house . |
| 19 | She still keeps house for my mother . |
| 20 | ‘ His sister , Sarah , who keeps house for him . |
| 21 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 22 | It does not seem possible that such women just were not able to have part-time work that would enable them to keep house for an elderly parent , and do their own thing as well . |
| 23 | I 'm to keep house . ’ |
| 24 | There is also Midge 's deserting husband who left her , not for another woman , but just left her , and went to keep house for an invalid aunt . |
| 25 | ‘ Freddie was not sorry and neither was I. I stayed on with him to keep house . |
| 26 | She could n't bear things like Anna refusing to keep house or giving any pleasure to herself . |
| 27 | There had been no mention of Alice going out there to keep house for him . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And the eldest child , a girl of seventeen , was brought to London to keep house for her uncle , my father 's competitor . |
| 30 | But she also had to keep house for Aunt Bessie and for a lodger she had to take in to make ends meet . |