Sentence examples for used to keep it from inspiring English sources
One involves firing up Philae's flywheel - a mechanism that was used to keep it stable during its descent to the comet on Wednesday.
If the dead are right, he says, maybe our ancestors went very astray "with all that (sometimes lifelong) ritual of sorrow – visiting graves, keeping anniversaries, leaving the empty bedroom exactly as 'the departed' used to keep it … or even (like Queen Victoria) having the dead man's clothes put out for dinner every evening".
He also used to keep it in his fridge.
Aid used to keep it afloat, but this has now dried up, barring the odd handout from Libya's Muammar Qaddafi.
I used to keep it concealed, then one day I thought: "This is silly, you either look nervous or as if you're a recovering alcoholic.
"In China, people without refrigerators used to keep it for a long, long time, and use it whenever they could get a chicken.
"All your better golf courses, that's what they use to keep it really hard and smooth".
They wear the red-and-white checkered head cloth, but without the circular black band that other Saudi men use to keep it in place.
It used to keep him up at night.
Vanity used to keep us thin; now it makes us fat.
The question is whether it's of use to keep it up this summer".
