Example sentences of "[adv prt] keep the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My uncle will go on keeping the horses if we want them . |
| 2 | They keep the nets down to keep the flies out . |
| 3 | Fighting spread from bar to night-club along the narrow cobbled streets of the seedy riverside area as other sailors , including British seamen from the carrier , joined in and police were called in to keep the peace , he added . |
| 4 | Receivers called in to keep the shipbuilding company afloat after it failed to win a Ministry of Defence helicopter carrier order were meeting union officials this morning . |
| 5 | However , Ed James , one of the joint receivers called in to keep the company afloat , gave an assurance that the ship would return to the Tyne on Thursday or Friday next week . |
| 6 | After losing some men and witnessing some horrific atrocities that it might have prevented by timely action , the force began to jump in to keep the peace . |
| 7 | Eighty two staff at the Sainsbury 's supermarket on Tewkesbury Road in Cheltenham have contracted what 's thought to be a virus infection that causes fever , aches and vomiting.They 've all been sent home , and staff from other stores have been drafted in to keep the supermarket open.Tests are being carried out at the public health laboratory in the town to identify the illness.But Cheltenham 's Assistant Chief Environmental health officer says shoppers at the store should n't be worried about the outbreak : |
| 8 | As had happened previously , the fines were paid anonymously but the magistrates had made it impossible for an outsider to defuse the situation on this occasion by also binding them over to keep the peace . |
| 9 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 10 | I was bound over to keep the peace . |
| 11 | The charge was dropped and he walked free , mumbling his thanks , after being bound over to keep the peace for a year . |
| 12 | He got bound over to keep the peace for punching the guy who got fired . ’ |
| 13 | He was bound over to keep the peace by magistrates . |
| 14 | Stephen Gill , of Mount Parade , Harrogate , agreed to be bound over to keep the peace after David Bradshaw , prosecuting at York Crown Court , offered no evidence . |
| 15 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 16 | Last year he was bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep . |
| 17 | Last year , Mr Farquharson , a fitness enthusiast , was arrested on the actress 's doorstep and bound over to keep the peace . |
| 18 | The lights were turned off to keep the mosquitos away . |
| 19 | The patient is taught to lift his arm by gripping it behind the elbow with his other hand , drawing it gently forwards and up keeping the elbow straight , palm facing upwards , as he leans forwards from the hips . |
| 20 | A wash and brush up keeps the wheels in good shape … but sometimes mechanics can only sratch away at the problem . |
| 21 | Also always ask for the swarf to be blown out of cut sheets , and for the ends to be temporarily taped up to keep the sheets clean inside |
| 22 | The UN felt swamped by the quality and quantity of NATO staff work — NATO planners turned up with no fewer than five bound volumes — in the initial stages of the joint operation that was set up to keep the peace in Bosnia should the Bosnian Serbs join the Croats and Muslims in accepting the Vance-Owen peace plan . |
| 23 | A company spokesman would not say what measures had been drawn up to keep the port running normally . |
| 24 | And er they had a surveyor gang checking all the lines in the tunnel that the surveyors put up to keep the men driving the right tunnel it should n't go p one past the other . |
| 25 | Six months of painstaking work goes into preparing plants for showing … the plants have to be tied up to keep the stems straight … aphids must be brushed gently off the leaves … and the orchids have to be misted regularly to keep up the humidity . |
| 26 | There 's just no way I can pay such a big bill , and I need the heating on to keep the baby warm . |
| 27 | You will pay whatever staff have to be kept on to keep the house and grounds in order and … ’ |
| 28 | The struggle therefore went on to keep the Unionist press alive , and in 1912 and 1913 both Aitken and Northcliffe stood by the party and gave valuable support in their papers . |
| 29 | The pan is left at the side with its lid on to keep the sauce warm while he stands over the heating water , muttering incantations to make it boil . |
| 30 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |