Sentence examples for had kept me from inspiring English sources

No emergency had kept me.

Our history of openness, affection and trust had kept me believing that our relationship would survive, even thrive.

The immense sense of rage I once had kept me full of energy but left me undisciplined.

"That's when all my confusion about why they had kept me was solved," Blyth recollected.

Maybe it had been textbook self-defense, or self-loathing, that had kept me from reading books by women.

The only thing that had kept me calm that afternoon was knowing that I could protect him if he was on my team.

Afterward, he said that boxing skills taught by the Rosarios had "kept me alive," both on the street and in prison, adding, "They fix people's lives".

Wandering through newspaper archives, I grew steadily more amazed at the extent to which my parents had kept me apart from the racial turmoil of the times.

Twenty minutes later, still pacing around and thinking irritatedly of all the times my husband had kept me waiting, I left alone, marching off to the beach.

I would miss my dates at the gym and the woman who, however obliviously, had kept me going for so many months.

Little successes have kept me motivated.