Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] kept [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have kept a short rope on you and then you would never have escaped me . ’ |
| 3 | When I explained , he said , ‘ You should have kept the money . |
| 4 | My father said Eden should have kept the troops in Suez and only the British had moral integrity . |
| 5 | He should have kept the letter . |
| 6 | Oh I should have kept the other one . |
| 7 | You shou , perhaps you should have kept the bag on it . |
| 8 | He should have kept the studio in time for some |
| 9 | but must have kept the taste . |
| 10 | ‘ I never saw one thing she wanted that did not sell , ’ but nonetheless insisted that this undisciplined approach was unacceptable for a customer trying to furnish a house , who might have kept a sample for six weeks only to find she could not reorder the same fabric . |
| 11 | If they had held it , as they should , over the Patriarch 's head , it might have kept the dew from settling on his mitre . |
| 12 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 13 | I could have kept the lip zippered . |
| 14 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 15 | Now an Arsenal team in peak health would have kept a grip on the match . |
| 16 | He had functioned in the community , not just in his family up until … you know , with a lung function that would have kept a lot of people in bed , and he was reading , writing — he had published an article shortly before his hospitalization , and he was a very forceful fellow . |
| 17 | And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle , control would have been out of the hands of the region . |
| 18 | This state of ‘ nonequilibrium ’ ( straight heating would have kept the system in equilibrium ) lowers the resistance of the junction layer between S2 and S3 , and a substantial current flows where little current flowed before . |
| 19 | I believe that the Government would have kept the matter secret for much longer if the draft letter had not been leaked . |
| 20 | The heather would have kept the bees going throughout the winter . |
| 21 | The details of this should not present problems since the parents will have kept a baseline already . |