Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] to keep [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many an over-stressed big-city chef could benefit from Wendy Vaughan 's well-balanced thoughts , even if time constraints and geography conspire to keep them away from her equally well-balanced food . |
| 2 | But when you do achieve it , you will find that you can then use aerobic walking as part of an ongoing maintenance programme to keep you at your goal weight . |
| 3 | But do allow the cake to cool completely in the tin , covered with a tea towel to keep it moist , then wrap it in foil and keep it tightly wrapped once cut . |
| 4 | Leave to cool , covered with a sheet of non-stick baking paper and a damp tea towel to keep it moist . |
| 5 | Thus two machinists ' jobs are lost , but CNC machine tools as they are presently used require support from white-collar workers who write the programs which drive them and from maintenance workers to keep them running . |
| 6 | Since last October , inventors have had to pay renewal fees to keep US patents in force , so any firm interested in copying the gull-wing design will be keeping an eye on the status of the DeLorean patent . |
| 7 | This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level . |
| 8 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 9 | Did you ever hear the word stip Being used for a pole that was placed against a corn stack to keep it from |
| 10 | You do not need to learn to use the whole of LIFESPAN before you start to use the system ; LIFESPAN provides a comprehensive on-line help facility to keep you informed every step of the way . |
| 11 | The raiders helped themselves to salami and Christmas cake and fed the guard dog to keep it quiet . |
| 12 | He kept firing his inexhaustible gun at us , shattering the entire rear of the car– Susan threw up enough concealed armour plate to keep us safe , but ricochets still twanged through the night . |
| 13 | He got up , put the plates of food in the range oven to keep them hot , then went down to see if Mrs Beavis could help . |
| 14 | When I was playing rugby and I hurt my thumb she actually lent me a very expensive Jaeger coat to keep me warm . |
| 15 | Therefore the plant should be grown in a mixture of coarse sand and some peat or bulb fibre to keep it dwarf , low-growing and encourage many plant clumps , which form an excellent carpet of bright green flora . |
| 16 | Every political leader is locked inside an impenetrable bubble and wafted around by a gigantic retinue of security advisers to keep us out . |
| 17 | And what about the buggy pushers who hand their little darlings a picture book to keep them quiet while they browse through adult fiction ? |
| 18 | tone your breasts by spraying them with alternate bursts of warm and cold water then smooth on lots of body lotion to keep them looking their best . |
| 19 | The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is . |
| 20 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 21 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |
| 22 | She got help from the special unit , took out a court order to keep him away from her . |
| 23 | And , without television coverage to keep them honest , US newspaper and sports magazine editors once again chose to ignore the World Championship of one of the world 's most popular sports . |
| 24 | With Sycorax on her back , Ariel dropped on to her haunches and took up her baby and tied him in a cloth to her breast ; she rubbed his mouth with soursop juice to keep him dry so that he would not howl with discomfort to be changed ( she packed soft moss against his bottom , just to be sure ) ; then she took a basket of her herbs and preparations and whistled softly to Paca , the last of her caveys , to follow . |
| 25 | REMEMBER the Sabbath day to keep it holy . |
| 26 | At a time when managers in other companies worried about being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , the IBMer had his Career Manager to keep him in view . |
| 27 | Elections , strikes , riots , pressure group lobbying , and decisions by law courts continuously serve to adjust state policies to keep them in touch with movements and realignments of multiple class fractions and strata . |
| 28 | The ambitious Hall , famed cup specialists , are still involved in both the Rothmans and the Welsh Knockout Cups and need the talents of County choice Peers to keep them on track for the double . |
| 29 | And , you 've got your working day to keep you busy and all the other things that keep you |
| 30 | The Aquamassage brush is waterproof and can be used in the bath and shower : ‘ The only difficulty is keeping enough soap on the brush head to keep it from dragging the skin , ’ she says . |