Example sentences of "[adv] well kept " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so well kept . |
| 2 | The dogs are raised mainly on breeding farms and are described as ‘ generally well kept in outdoor pens with adequate room ’ . |
| 3 | Turnpikes were not always better kept than parish roads . |
| 4 | The shelves near the ground were usually well kept , but higher up they became more disorganised and larger in size , almost as tall as the pupils themselves . |
| 5 | And er all that , her other twelve children all came up to see her while she was there and they were beautifully kept , really well kept and well fed too . |
| 6 | The interest factor is a rather well kept secret outside local government ! ’ |
| 7 | It was large and double-fronted , and conspicuously well kept . |
| 8 | Somehow the secret was remarkably well kept . |
| 9 | Eliot , in any case , looked to him the leader of a hated literary avant-garde ; the world of his poetry contemptibly dry and thin , as Lewis imagined , his mind seemingly unstoried , his passion for Sherlock Holmes a secret too well kept to save him . |
| 10 | The garden could hardly be called a garden ; it was large , wild and not too well kept . |
| 11 | Wycliffe passed through into a large , well kept garden — too well kept for his taste : shrubs pruned , grass like a bowling green , edges trimmed . |
| 12 | A directory of 1852 listed three inns ; the ‘ Bell ’ , ( recently demolished ) , ‘ Webb 's ’ , ( opened by Robert Webb in 1833 and by the 1840 's already ‘ … very well kept and without a superior in the country ’ . ) |
| 13 | We guessed what it was all leading up to but the exact date was a very well kept secret . |
| 14 | Down Whynham Lane is the village play area , in a safe place off the main road , well used and very well kept . |