Example sentences of "[adj] to keep them [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By now the champagne was flowing … all United need now is a new owner willing to keep them in the style to which they 'd like to become accustomed .
2 What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty …
3 Special cages have been developed for wild mice to reduce the need for handling during cleaning but it is possible to keep them in standard mouse cages .
4 It is obviously important to get people to join the G M B and it 's just as important to keep them as members once they have joined .
5 The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control .
6 Western economies are certainly prone to crises , but the state seems able to keep them in check .
7 Whenever animals are to be brought into an animal house from an outside source it is advisable to keep them in strict isolation for 28 days while health checks are carried out .
8 I found that it was vital to keep them under water when moving them after I had experienced problems with eggs which were accidentally exposed to air which probably dried them out .
9 It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar .
10 Though , using Letraset to title them is not easy to do , you know it 's very difficult to keep them on a straight line .
11 but a when when somebody when it 's becoming apparent that somebody is I would n't say is not interested in your little complaint that you 've got and that that they 're they 're trying to change to subject it 's difficult to keep them on it
12 This time , because your subjects are not static objects but people , you can move the camera as necessary to keep them in the centre of the frame — but stay with the subject , do n't pan part-way through to show something else .
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