When he was a boy, his father had kept him away from the north end.

And why did my father keep just that one photo?

My father kept leaving in his car every morning as if he were going to work.

His father never told anyone and always kept that fact a family secret.

His father kept a shop at the front of the family home.

He knew his father had kept such affairs out of the house.

If her father had kept it such a secret, perhaps she didn't know even now.

His father keeps to the house: I have not seen him yet.

The father kept back 5/ for himself, out of which he bought his own clothes.

Father kept a room on the main floor for her, when she visited.