Sentence examples for was kept back from inspiring English sources
At school in Grantham he was "kept back for extra lessons because I couldn't articulate very well".
If we had the money that was kept back from tax evasion, we could afford to pay for legal aid".
His assault on Indianapolis was delayed for virtually the entire session as he was kept back in the pit garage with a technical systems problem on his McLaren MP4/16.
The tax break for motorists was kept back to give the speech a populist flourish in the manner patented by Gordon Brown during his long stint at the Treasury, although it did jar a bit with the chancellor's boast of this being the greenest government in history.
As an older, experienced NCO he was kept back from active service, and spent his war training new recruits in various Army camps up and down the country.
"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.
In the case of Ms. Higgins's Ursula, Sir Richard said, "the power is in knowing what is being kept back".
