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

My brother keeps a shop in the Trade City.

Keeping a shop during the war was an arduous business.

She lives with her mother, that keeps a sweet shop in Auburn Road.

But it was actually used to keep a shop going.

It was used to keep a shop supplied with articles of commerce not otherwise available.

The rest of the week, except for Sunday, he apparently kept a shop in a village not far away.

The little man did not keep a tidy shop.

She was going, it seemed, on business for her aunt who kept a most interesting antique shop in Ebermouth.

His sister married a butcher who was a member of a family which kept a shop as a front for dealing in stolen goods.