Sentence examples for he kept back from inspiring English sources

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Many of Lowe's photos have been seen before but he kept back eight images.

She quotes approvingly his statement that he kept back from his stories "the images and scenes dear to me... which I have treasured and kept carefully hidden".

If he kept back money that he might have laid on me, I'm particularly happy about that now, because I'm sure he has it with him, and he'll need it".

He kept back two chapters, 44 and 47, which, along with some of the earlier material, are now stored in a vault in Atlanta, to be opened only if a question ever arises about the authorship of "Gone With the Wind".

Yet for Anthony Sampson, Mr Mandela's long years of imprisonment are not a blank in his career but a key to understanding his character and the movement he led.A ghosted autobiography of Mr Mandela came out in 1994, but he kept back many things that might have alienated much-needed allies.

With his revelation, late in life, of his teenage Waffen-SS membership, Grass became the story; the secret he kept back, almost to the last, making his life's narrative seem more tightly – and more conventionally – plotted than any of his fiction.

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"He kept backing off.

"If he keeps backing off and changing on everything, his presidency will be an utter failure," Schumer said.

At school in Grantham he was "kept back for extra lessons because I couldn't articulate very well".

He looked like he might keep backing up, but on No. 9, he drained a 12-footer to save par and stay at three under.

"He kept going back.

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