Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't have a lot of money when I come home and my parents , who are both on income support , are basically keeping me during holidays . ’ |
| 2 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 3 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 4 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 5 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 6 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 7 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 8 | Punch , in particular Bargepole 's column , is the only thing keeping me in England at the moment . |
| 9 | Once again , thanks for keeping me in touch . |
| 10 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 11 | ‘ And you 're going to be in a lot of trouble when I tell the police you 're keeping me in this car by force . ’ |
| 12 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 13 | The task of keeping them under observation had been deputed to Davout 's staff . |
| 14 | But Branfoot warned : ‘ I 'll be keeping them under tight control from now on . |
| 15 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 16 | It 's quite a nice little town , everybody knows everybody , and they do n't like to feel that they 're going to be outside of the sort of social circle that they move in , so it does have that effect in keeping them under control . |
| 17 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 18 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 19 | No he 's keeping them for just fun cars for himself , he 's just got the money to burn over there |
| 20 | Cos what I 'm doing , I put them on a series and keeping them for revision . |
| 21 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 22 | Keeping them at arms length guarantees that they will be lukewarm or confused in their support and their potential as marketers of the school will lie untapped . |
| 23 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 24 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 25 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 26 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 27 | Some fell down , forgotten by those who had been keeping them on their feet . |
| 28 | And , keeping them on their toes … the doctors who walk eighteen miles a day . |
| 29 | Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system . |
| 30 | Indeed , man is much more of a threat to these lizards , by keeping them as pets ; their existence in the wild is now threatened by collectors . |