Example sentences of "to keep [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The petty bourgeoisie of shopkeepers and self-employed tradesmen needed to keep accounts even if only of a primitive kind , but the growing fraction of permanent journeymen among the artisans grew into a more literate as well as more skilled elite section of the labouring classes . |
| 32 | What are the advantages of actually using a computer to keep accounts as opposed to a gentleman sitting on a tall stool with a quill pen ? |
| 33 | Anything to keep Plainsong alive and Scott-Scobie and co. quiet until the news from Scotland got better . |
| 34 | With the catapults they use to keep birds from the crops , they launch a couple of parting stones far over my head . |
| 35 | In the meantime , if you 're still keen to keep birds , you can help by buying only those bred in captivity ( many of the common pet species like budgerigars are bred in UK aviaries ) : look out for close-rings fitted to bird 's legs as proof ( above ) . |
| 36 | But later she developed an allergy to feathers , and that made it very difficult for her when I wanted to keep birds in the house ! |
| 37 | There 's enough spare kindling and wood up there , trimmed off the trees , to keep Rhyll warm for a year . ’ |
| 38 | All day long you will work and you will slave , Allowing wheelchairs to go where you pave , Just look at the kids to keep tiredness at bay , Because for them you are making it a better day . |
| 39 | Strong persuasion was required to keep Curran from her evening doubles match but as she left the court to return to her hotel for physiotherapy , England claimed another point by default . |
| 40 | But one of the complaints that I was very bitter about was at that time I cycled to my work and they had paving stones in the bakery with the slits in them for to keep bikes . |
| 41 | She had one made out of ice … with ROOMS in it to keep prisoners in . |
| 42 | This powerful and unusual defensive tower was never put to the test and was almost solely used to keep prisoners in rather than invaders out . |
| 43 | To keep prisoners so near to a frontier on the far side of which they would be free , could seem a casual or risky policy , but it is hard to imagine anyone actually escaping from Le Portalet , whose grated windows you can see from the road , with a nasty drop of a good 100 feet straight on to the rocks beneath them . |
| 44 | In September the staff at Albany , another maximum security prison , voted to keep prisoners in their cells , after a confrontation between staff and prisoners . |
| 45 | The Home Office say it 's better to keep prisoners in an old gaol than in police cells . |
| 46 | Er , at this time , I used to keep scrap books of the Royal Family , for years , I did , |
| 47 | It was doubtful whether Schluter could remain in control but two emotional anniversaries during the campaign helped to keep defence as the issue : April 9 was the anniversary of the German invasion and occupation of Denmark in the Second World War , and May 9 the anniversary of the Liberation . |
| 48 | And he 's staying tonight to keep Danielle . |
| 49 | The talk on Tyneside yesterday was whether United got it right when they chose not to keep Jan Eriksson , the Sweden and Norrkoping defender who headed the opening goal of the European Championships on Wednesday night . |
| 50 | that 's all , but then I 'd have to keep blow drying and it every day . |
| 51 | In the meantime he sent back parcels full of toys to keep William 's spirits up ; wonderful toys like an electric train with a cowcatcher and a working headlight on the front and models of Liberators and Mitchell bombers and a replica of a Colt Peacemaker in a real leather holster . |
| 52 | I was told to keep mum about it . ’ |
| 53 | AND so Ed and Kath decide to keep mum about Mr Sloane 's murder of their father , preferring to share him , turn and turn about , six months at a time , Ed 's turn first since Kath is pregnant with Sloane 's child . |
| 54 | He had , he said , originally planned to keep improvements apart , but had now been forced to combine them on account of a ‘ piratical ’ edition , published in Dublin , producing everything under one cover , and therefore he had been obliged to do the same . |
| 55 | In America and Britain however , there were fears that such a policy would cripple Germany ; America and Britain would then be forced to provide aid to keep Germans alive , and the health of the European economy in general would suffer . |
| 56 | It 's not easy to keep secrets . |
| 57 | ’ Curtis 's hands conveyed the futility of trying to keep secrets . |
| 58 | He also had to keep secrets , for he knew the real shape of things : " I am surprised the ladies have not found out a way to employ women stay-makers rather than trust our sex with what should be kept as inviolably as Free-Masonry . " |
| 59 | Police had to erect barriers to keep crowds back as Charles was warmly greeted by hundreds of wellwishers as he arrived at Dundee 's City Square . |
| 60 | He noted the external application of gold in cases of fistulas , piles , ringworm and ulcers and the practice of burning jet to keep serpents at bay and dispel hysteria . |