Sentence examples for I keep close from inspiring English sources

I keep close watch on myself.

"I keep close relationships with the people in those photographs".

The one of his that I keep close to my heart is "Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back".

Examples I keep close to hand include John Le Carre's famous Cold War stories about his spy character, George Smiley, resident of Bywater Street and operative from a pretend spook HQ in Cambridge Circus.

Max Hole, an executive at Universal's international division, told me, "I keep close tabs on what's happening in Japan, so of course I was aware that Girls Generationn had become monstrously huge there, and they do these amazing synchronized dances — a very visual act — and I thought the songs were great.

Last, a book I keep close to my heart all year round, but that is particularly apposite at Christmas: Helen Saberi and Alan Davidson's peerless Trifle (Prospect Books, £9.99), a slim volume that still manages to pack in more than 90 recipes for this British classic with its "carousel of flavours, colours and textures".

"I arrived with my Bible, my shield, the one thing I kept close to my chest.

But I kept close to Evelyn Stevens until halfway up the climb and I could hear her breathing was louder than mine, so I knew she was suffering".

"I had a 12-year investment here and 24 years in reality because I kept close friends and community ties here," he said.

(Apparently, I kept close tabs on our mileage).

'I kept closing my eyes and thinking of outside.