Example sentences of "[pron] to keep [pers pn] in " in BNC.

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1 As it drew nearer to Corrie 's fifth birthday she began desperately seeking a way in which to keep her in Chertsey .
2 My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’
3 The Conti family held on to Sora after the election of Innocent 's successor , Honorius III , who wished to retain their loyalty and allowed them to keep it in return for payment , but lost the territory back to the Regno after a successful campaign by Frederick II in 1221 .
4 Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church .
5 What is there to keep you in that sorry place ?
6 The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments .
7 Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent .
8 In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work .
9 He was also very good at playing the ball down the line , bending it to keep it in play — and take play up to near their corner flag cos all the defender could do was kick it out ( then Vinny steps up : - )
10 Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly .
11 I 'll do anything to keep you in my arms . ’
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