Example sentences of "[pers pn] have kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd kept it in the bottom of my bra-and-pants drawer ever since I stole it from Dad . |
| 2 | ‘ I just wish I 'd kept my flies fastened that day , ’ he said . |
| 3 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 4 | But you ca n't imagine how many times I 've thought , ‘ If I 'd kept him , he might have lived . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd kept my involvement with FAKOUM and FAKINTIL and in particular my personal association with Osvaldo and Martinho to myself , but he smelled a rat . |
| 6 | But I 'd have gone nowhere if I 'd kept playing . |
| 7 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 8 | It 'd have been better if I 'd kept them two . |
| 9 | Because I 'd k I 'd kept it like as evidence |
| 10 | His a terrible , so we did n't go near him right through on the playing field , and then Katherine , I found to get , I sat , found a way to get them near Matthew and then Katherine said , I tickled him on the back , and I 'd kept on doing that . . |
| 11 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 12 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 13 | As I blundered on in my explanation I realised he had forgotten all about it and if I had kept my mouth shut the problem need never have arisen . |
| 14 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 15 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
| 16 | In the good old days , the days I now call BC , Before Cancer , I had kept these Mafia , these hyenas at bay . |
| 17 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 18 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 19 | I was glad to do this , for I had kept in close touch with his work and took a deep interest in it . |
| 20 | I had kept my side of the bargain , my teetotaller 's pledge . |
| 21 | ‘ I had kept it open for Ross as long as I could . ’ |
| 22 | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager 's job was third prize . |
| 23 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 24 | I had kept fairly quiet while I tried to establish myself and gauge the atmosphere of the school . |
| 25 | At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent . |
| 26 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 27 | This was the first time I had kept anything from Sarah . |
| 28 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 29 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 30 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |