Example sentences of "to keep [adv prt] with [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Got to keep in with them , though . ’ |
| 2 | His mother said her son was n't an addict , but was simply trying to keep in with his friends . |
| 3 | On the other hand it is not enough simply to say that Libyans were inconsistent because they could not change their ideas fast enough to keep up with their changing society . |
| 4 | B and L were unable to keep up with their loan repayments and the bank appointed administrative receivers . |
| 5 | This helps them to keep up with their subject and sometimes with their colleagues . |
| 6 | I must admit , though , I find it difficult to keep up with their thought patterns at times . ’ |
| 7 | And you had to keep up with their er thinking tactics . |
| 8 | She talked about her entire life , and I was running behind trying to keep up with which decade she was talking about . |
| 9 | She was finding it harder and harder to keep up with her mother 's thoughts . |
| 10 | She had recently found that she was waking with the dawn — or even slightly earlier — and she used the opportunity either to keep up with her journal or to rough out a column for J. D. O'Connor who grew increasingly pleased with her work . |
| 11 | He was not so ill , however , that he was unable to keep up with what was going on . |
| 12 | He is forced to accept , however , that by this stage , most of the readers of the published articles read them " out of a sense of duty " and " a wish to keep up with what is being done , " rather than " because they have any real interest in the subject " . |
| 13 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 14 | Otherwise it was something to be put across in demonstration-lectures to those wanting to keep up with what was going on , but not to bother with too much detail . |
| 15 | Carrie hurried through the evening street and Fred struggled to keep up with her . |
| 16 | Far from not knowing what she was doing her staff discovered it was all they could do to keep up with her . |
| 17 | I 'd better make sure I 've got enough energy to keep up with her . ’ |
| 18 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 19 | I barge through the crowd of 'orrible mums , snotty kids and prams that always litter up the gate , and rush across the road , Mrs Moggs , the crossing lady , trying hard to keep up with me on her fat little legs . |
| 20 | An expert from L'Oréal will talk about what happens to skin as it gets older and explain how to keep up with its changing needs by choosing from the extensive Plénitude range , which helps to combat the signs of ageing . |
| 21 | But there was little they could do about it except wring their hands at each fresh horror in its columns , analyse its transparently partisan coverage , and point out how its competitors were dragging their standards downmarket to try to keep up with its soaraway sales . |
| 22 | It was like cat and mouse trying to keep up with him . |
| 23 | In Khrushchev Remembers the misery of those telephoned summons to share Stalin 's nightly loneliness is vividly caught : the Westerns they had to watch with him , the dinners they had to endure with him , the drinking they had to keep up with him until breakfast time ( even Beria arranged to be given coloured water , until Stalin found out ) . |
| 24 | The old man sliced through the logs with such quick , sweet accuracy that it was almost impossible to keep up with him . |
| 25 | The sight of her legs as they stretched forward to keep up with him lifted him with exultation . |
| 26 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 27 | Outside the study door Murray strode forward without a word and Richard , bewildered , had to trot to keep up with him . |
| 28 | The gossip columnists of Europe and the East Coast fought to keep up with him . |
| 29 | Meredith found herself scurrying along to keep up with him . |
| 30 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |