Example sentences of "try to keep [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Larger seedlings will block out the light from smaller ones , so try to keep them in a row at the back .
2 We try to keep it under the surface but it 's definitely become much more of a problem .
3 He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more .
4 I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish .
5 I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour .
6 Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life .
7 I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’
8 This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level .
9 And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format .
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