Example sentences of "n't kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few readers will notice this discrepancy , but all are flicked and jabbed at and irritated — those circling insects — by contradiction , by undetermination followed by overdetermination of reasons , by the narrator 's fuss over details which do n't matter , his youthful sententiousness about women ( ‘ the depths of the female heart ’ ) and other irrelevancies , his moralizing , his way of wantonly bleeding a robust narrative with ‘ However , that may only have seemed so ’ , his ‘ I have already described ’ when he has n't , his promises to explain later which are n't kept when the reader does n't want explanation anyhow , he wants the story . |
| 2 | That was why her Dad had n't kept in touch with her , why her Mam got angry with her … . |
| 3 | The families have n't kept up . ’ |
| 4 | A spoon flew , Gavin ducked ; it hit the lad behind him , who had n't kept his eyes and ears open , and splashed into the soup pot . |
| 5 | I hope I have n't kept you waiting . |
| 6 | If she had n't kept busy all the time she would have thought too much about James , and about Maggie . |
| 7 | How were they to know we were n't kept late at work ? |
| 8 | And there was always hope that the Westward family would see her one day as an elegant lady and be sorry they had n't kept in touch with the child who was after all their own flesh and blood . |
| 9 | However , when they had used HP , they had often got into trouble over it , usually because they had n't kept up the payments . |
| 10 | If a small area of water is n't kept open , thick ice can tear pond liners , and harm fish in severe weather . |
| 11 | He had n't kept track , but he thought he had sensed Jitters going down . |
| 12 | SNACK ATTACK : If your sandwich is n't kept cool it could bite back |
| 13 | The problem with Gore-Tex jackets in the past has been quite simple — they have n't kept the water out . |
| 14 | Practically all these early recordings suffer from distortion and overloading of the voice , something not readily apparent on the original 78s and something Decca should surely have been able to correct even , if as I believe , they have n't kept the original masters ( shame on them ! ) |
| 15 | Maybe I have n't kept it up to her standards but I 've done my best . " |
| 16 | But it was an improvement on William 's taste in art and they served a good pint of bitter , and Preston might almost have settled back to enjoy it if he 'd been able to forget their reason for being there and if Emily had n't kept on at him about William and the Black Death . |
| 17 | I mean why why why do you think there is n't more Channel four , I know , ran some women 's football er recently but th th , they have n't kept it up very regularly but wh why why is that ? |
| 18 | The delays were caused mainly by patients waiting for long term care ( because private provision had n't kept up with demand ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope I have n't kept you from your beach . ’ |
| 20 | But they still have n't kept pace with the population even though it is slowing down now . |
| 21 | You have n't kept your part of the bargain , have you ? |
| 22 | No I had n't kept a a of the whole like . |
| 23 | ( It did n't come near the hair line so if he had n't kept tapping it no one would have noticed it . ) |
| 24 | ‘ I hope I have n't kept you waiting . ’ |
| 25 | But our Jack had n't kept his nose clean , being the sort of bloke who was born with somebody else 's silver spoon in his fist if not his mouth . |
| 26 | This was the thing that came up previously about er , dispatch of a report not being recorded anywhere , because of that was a compliment slip which a photocopy was n't kept and so we erm , therefore have to have a note made on the client contact form to say it 's gone . |
| 27 | I mean he has n't kept you on now though ? |
| 28 | We 've been told that er everything 's done in , in the relation to the trustee but of course when you 're talking about massive sums of one point seven billion , our members er who are seventy five/eighty olds who suffered the problem of the inflatory years , their pensions have n't kept , kept pace with the with the people that are retiring now . |
| 29 | Jamie was sold , but 2 months later Mrs Burt has n't kept her side of the bargain . |