Example sentences of "always kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | These doors are always kept open . ’ |
| 2 | Dried specimens of any sort were always kept by him and roots of many more . |
| 3 | The Brussels élite from Count Egmont to the Eurocrats have always kept to the high ground , but the lower quarter has recently turned stylish . |
| 4 | Gina almost always kept out of the way when he had anyone in . |
| 5 | Gloria put on her stockings , one coupon each , two for the pair and always kept for best , straightened the seams up the back , Vase lined her eyebrows , and put on her suede peeptoe shoes and her little black hat with the veil which usually lived in one of the paper carrier bags on the top of the shelf . |
| 6 | In such a situation in a foreign country I am never able to speak the language , so when they asked for my passport I just said ‘ Hotel ’ , because Spanish hotels always kept visitors ' passports , at any rate for the first night . |
| 7 | ‘ Then I have always kept to making the Ovaltine last thing , and on Friday night I forgot to put the sugar in for him and went to get the bowl . |
| 8 | ‘ Have you always kept the fire going in summer ? ’ |
| 9 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 10 | This door was always kept closed so that the strong odours of tobacco , cigarettes , cigars , and leather goods should not permeate into the sweet shop . |
| 11 | In pantomime or musical comedy they might also be required to appear in production numbers with the rest of the company but true chorus dancers were always kept in the background . |
| 12 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 13 | Out of every litter the puppy that was always kept was the biggest , reddest female . |
| 14 | She had always kept herself aloof from men , hating their sly looks , their winks and coarse talk . |
| 15 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 16 | Of course Truman always kept a framed copy of that hanging in his office . |
| 17 | You will find that , in the initial stages , it is much easier to control the tail if the model is always kept moving slowly forwards . |
| 18 | Five would be disappointed , but we were always kept on the hop . |
| 19 | If Niki the man slips through this net of approbation , much of the fault must rest with his own capacity to mythologize , his utter disrespect for those who seek to read his mind and the kinds of people he has always kept about him , like court jesters , to keep his market value high . |
| 20 | Mum knew this too , which was why she always kept an eye on him when he was the worse for drink . |
| 21 | ‘ Father always kept in touch with Peter and he planned to come and see us when he got leave from France , where he was stationed . |
| 22 | Our dog is our constant walking companion and is always kept on a lead . |
| 23 | She called it a good house , because the maid always kept things for her . |
| 24 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 25 | During infancy children tend to be kept most of the time in the small , dark interior of their hut , where they are rarely allowed to crawl on the floor , rarely spoken to or played with ( though always kept near the mother ) , and where few objects for play are available . |
| 26 | Management always kept a track on all the workers and treated those of us in the independent union very differently . |
| 27 | She made a shooing gesture as Ruth , conscious that the water was always kept hot till midnight for the sake of the guests , continued to stare . |
| 28 | I made toast from left-over bits of baguette and always kept a kettle on the hob . |
| 29 | This is a field in which speculation and clearly attested fact are not always kept in distinct compartments . |
| 30 | All these years , she had carried Tyler 's image in her heart , and suddenly there he was , looking at her , startling her , his gaze finding its way into that secret part of her that she had always kept hidden . |