Example sentences of "[noun pl] keep his " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 2 | Then he holed from 12 feet to keep his slender advantage after being bunkered at the sixteenth . |
| 3 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 4 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 5 | Fortunately Schur promises to keep his promise . |
| 6 | With great discretion , Dyson yawned , straining his muscles to keep his mouth shut at the same time . |
| 7 | The player has denied demanding two thousand pounds to keep his mouth shut . |
| 8 | Although the overlap in personnel is less than many commentators might suppose , the presence of Ian Paisley is such that , despite his best efforts to keep his roles as Church and Party leader distinct , the simplifications of unionist politics into just two parties has left the Church firmly associated with the DUP . |
| 9 | Michael Foot had put together a series of policies to keep his party together . |
| 10 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 11 | McCowen 's middle class Brit worries about his mum and attempts to keep his stiff upper lip from trembling by reliving tennis star Virginia Wade 's Wimbledon triumph . |
| 12 | There was a slight chance the girl at the ford was you , and Boisson had orders to keep his eyes open while he was collecting rents . |
| 13 | On top of all that Copper has always had a dust allergy and he got very congested so we had to give him powders to keep his lungs clear . |
| 14 | He went to exceedingly great lengths to keep his name out of the public eye , but , as with Lawrence , an extreme desire for secrecy and public contempt for ambition were accompanied by a morbid fascination with the power of the will . |
| 15 | But 50-year-old Thaw has gone to extreme lengths to keep his location secret and has turned into a virtual recluse . |
| 16 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 17 | He opened his wings in great noisy sweeps to keep his balance as he gripped on to the hand . |
| 18 | Alexei kept his face expressionless . |
| 19 | He was taking large quantities of vitamin pills to keep his strength up — with the unexpected side-effect of giving him hairs on his chest — and he was socializing again , accepting invitations in the belief that it was necessary to circulate after his period in the wilderness . |
| 20 | ‘ He held down three jobs to keep his family together . |
| 21 | Cassowary did look decidedly odd with his short wings flailing like paddles to keep his heavy body aloft , and his long legs treading the air beneath him . |