Example sentences of "[verb] keep [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The ambiguous status of blacks , as neither invaders nor indigenous Americans , caused some controversy but it was agreed to keep them within the overall campaign . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 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 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 7 | We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills . |
| 8 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |