Sentence examples for being kept back from inspiring English sources

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"Did he tell you he's being kept back a year at school?" "Oh... well," Stanton said.

In the case of Ms. Higgins's Ursula, Sir Richard said, "the power is in knowing what is being kept back".

A child being "kept back" or "retained in grade" used to concentrate the minds of parents wonderfully on what their children were up to.

Next we'll maybe find out more about the campaign missions, the multiplayer arenas, or other secrets clearly being kept back for E3 and Gamescom.

But on forced academisation, he said it was like an entire class of children being kept back for detention just because one or two have misbehaved.

Osborne, who has sanctioned a further sell-off of Royal Mail, said 1% was being kept back for the company's employees.

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One was kept back.

"Delegates are kept back by political gridlock.

Did you feel there were times you were kept back or personally discriminated against?

They'd been kept back in school, or had started school later than their classmates.

Some men tried to get into that boat, but were kept back.

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