Example sentences of "[conj] keeps you " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , if you are just visiting , you blame her if the person you have come to see is n't there , or keeps you waiting , or whatever . |
| 2 | We take a frozen river for a long way , a bumpy ride that keeps you concentrating , and when we eventually come off it , there is a lone tree that the dogs pull towards despite our efforts . |
| 3 | A scheme that keeps you out of the unemployment statistics and in your place ? |
| 4 | A sedentary existence or a job that keeps you standing around for hours is liable to encourage a poor circulation as well as allowing the buttock and thigh muscles to become weak and flabby , making cellulite much worse . |
| 5 | Three hearty hurrahs , therefore , for the inventors of the GuitaRest , the kind of ultra-neat idea that keeps you awake at night wishing that you 'd thought of it . |
| 6 | He had memorized it years ago in the Ecalpemos epoch : ‘ The safest way to live is first , inherit money , second , be born without taste for liquor , third , have a legitimate job that keeps you busy , fourth , marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities , fifth , join some big church , sixth , do n't live too long . ’ |
| 7 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 8 | It 's the news that keeps you on the move . |
| 9 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 10 | A new bank account that keeps you in touch and in the know . |
| 11 | So a department name , the admin department , a department code , one hundred , and as I was saying er , you wan na to get in the top left hand corner , any information that keeps you informed so I wan na get both the department code and the department name into that one cell . |
| 12 | Marie Collinge specialises in cooking goat meat and she says it 's an ideal food that keeps you healthy . |
| 13 | I mean the fact you can do things and , alright you have n't got the upkeep if repairs need doing but I think that keeps you going . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's good for your face and keeps you looking younger . ’ |
| 15 | As one peasant from a resettled community said , ‘ it makes you proud of who you are and keeps you changing ’ . |
| 16 | reverse the order of the columns and listen to each pair of sentences ( helps flexibility and keeps you from getting into a rut ) |
| 17 | Teletext not only gives up-to-date news and a wealth of information on different subjects but keeps you informed of sub-titled plays and many special TV programmes which can be followed visually . |
| 18 | The lengthening day that pushes back your train Of clinging shadow , but keeps you here , has woken The seeds from the sleep they fell to when you went Down with them to darkness , the dread time When nothing could reach you , when you were hid away , And I retreated , sorrowing , hidden also ; And seed cast in the barren furrow rotted And trees withered and died ; and in the womb Of many a beast the embryo miscarried And then no germination ; and the earth sickened When in the womb of darkness you were stifled . |