Sentence examples for by kept from inspiring English sources

"My uncle, who lived close by, kept telling me, 'Sonny boy, you've got to help your mother.

The Persian gardeners, however, continued to water the flowering verbena and, as days and then weeks went by, kept the lawn (despite the number of people sleeping on it) brilliantly green.

LIBERTY HOUSE, the storied Upper West Side boutique, was supposed to close last weekend, but on Tuesday, people walking by kept putting their faces against the glass, tapping on the door or sliding in behind a workman.

A contractor who had a storage facility close by, kept receiving visits from juveniles who jumped the fence and took material for the work.

ICA was then applied to the three most significant PCA components, determined by kept variance, to extract the independent maps of each sample, for improved discrimination.

The primary efficacy outcome is virologic suppression at 12 months and the key secondary outcome, which will also be examined as a mediator of the primary outcome, is retention in HIV care, as operationalized by kept and missed primary care visits.

But another passer-by kept right on going, concerned about a whole different kind of order among chaos.

While I stood outside the store, waiting for my friend Carl to show up, passers-by kept stopping and pointing at the three black lacquered mannequins displayed.

A padlock was placed on the gate across the short walkway to the house from the beach after passers-by kept intruding.

After passers-by kept stopping in to ask for food, he bought the Rosie's Diner once used as a setting for Bounty paper towel commercials and moved it to his lot in 1991 to serve meals.

The show, about a woman's encounter with a male ex-convict, elicited stares from some pedestrians on the SoHo street where it took place, but most passers-by kept walking.