Example sentences of "she keeps " in BNC.
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| 1 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , the close-up , detailed approach which works brilliantly , say , for Imogen Stubbs 's affecting Desdemona ( the pathos of her disoriented , jittery jauntiness intensified by beautiful touches such as the sepia photograph of her estranged father she keeps on the bedside table in Cyprus or the chocolates from Casio that she has secreted in a locked draw , not because she fears sexual misconstruction but because she would like to be thought too grown-up for frivolous sweet-guzzling by Othello ) paradoxically diminishes Iago because it encourages the belief that he can be realistically ‘ explained ’ like a figure in a novel . |
| 3 | It 's not funny , I can tell you , trying to tell a sick woman her daughter 's dead when she keeps insisting she 's alive and in Germany . ’ |
| 4 | She keeps poking me in the side with every step . |
| 5 | She tries to keep a straight face , but she keeps cracking up . |
| 6 | I du n no what she 's talking about cos I ca n't hear through the glass , but she keeps laughing at things he says . |
| 7 | She ai n't looking at it — she 's carrying on talking to the man , but she keeps twisting the neck of this white duck . |
| 8 | But she keeps asking for you . ’ |
| 9 | She keeps nothing hidden from Edward , so confident is she of his love and so secure in her belief in the future that lies before them , unconventional and home-based : |
| 10 | ‘ She keeps the corn in here , ’ said Lee , opening the door of the shed . |
| 11 | ‘ But what about the other address she keeps ? ’ |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher may talk green , but she keeps acting dirty . |
| 13 | She keeps circling between past and present , memory and oblivion , like someone trying to wake up from a nightmare . |
| 14 | I wonder that she keeps a photograph . ’ |
| 15 | Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters . |
| 16 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 17 | Set in Alaska , it stars the Canadian folk-singer k. d. lang as Kotz , an orphaned Eskimo of ambiguous sexual identity and brooding potential violence , who latches on to Roswitha ( Rosel Zech ) , a middle-aged German emigree librarian still hanging on to memories of lost happiness like the jars of preserved berries she keeps in her bedroom . |
| 18 | On The Woman I Am , Chaka takes control again and , while the arrangements struggle to fill every available space with drum patterns and horn fills , she keeps swooping in like a dive-bombing seagull and forcing songs and producers into submission . |
| 19 | If , however , she keeps mating and not only gets several clutches going but is able to re-establish those that get lost , then she maximizes her chance of a successful breeding season . |
| 20 | As to Laure , I feel that if she keeps her intelligence that is very important . |
| 21 | I bet she keeps you up to the mark . |
| 22 | The husband keeps himself in touch with his femininity as expressed by his wife ; she keeps herself in touch with her masculinity as expressed by her husband . |
| 23 | The chief bridesmaid takes the bride 's bouquet which she keeps until after the signing of the register . |
| 24 | She keeps to herself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Mrs Wilberforce lives in the basement flat ; she keeps herself to herself . ’ |
| 26 | We already know she is wearing no underwear , and she keeps crossing and uncrossing her legs quite brazenly in front of Douglas and his colleagues . |
| 27 | She keeps herself to herself . |
| 28 | There 's a drawer in mum 's room where she keeps every single one . |
| 29 | She keeps fit by cycling to appointments from her home in Kilburn , north London . |
| 30 | But because she keeps breaking down the details remain confused . |