Example sentences of "to keep it [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 2 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 3 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 4 | Do I get a prize for being the 1000th person to point out that guitar music is written up an octave , not down , to keep it on the treble clef ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ During the time we had the picture in our possession , in an attempt to keep it off the international art market we consulted the criminal police , and attempted to put the picture on the index of important works of art which can not leave Germany . |
| 7 | ‘ Magnus is among the top assets in the XEU portfolio and my job is to keep it in the premier league , ’ he says . |