Example sentences of "keep him [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But also keeping him company is Stefan ( endowed with intense integrity in a fine performance from Mick Ford ) .
2 He turned back towards the stands , jumped nimbly over the thirteenth and fourteenth and soared over the Chair with Sebastian V , Royal Stuart and Zongalero keeping him company and Spartan Missile starting to make ground from the rear .
3 ‘ I expect Melody will come and keep him company sometimes . ’
4 She sees she sees to the cats and then she stays in the see you 've got ta keep him company
5 ‘ You know , where she keeps him prisoner . ’
6 She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked .
7 Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company .
8 we 'll hang Snowden and Thomas to keep him company ;
9 John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable .
10 My son is a dying junkie , but he does n't want to die alone so he 's encouraging Robin-Anne to keep him company and now she 's become addicted to cocaine and it wo n't be very long before she 's smoking crack and trying speedballs . ’
11 He had chain-smoked all the way down and Adam had had one or two to keep him company , though he did n't really like putting something lighted in his mouth .
12 It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company .
13 And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’
14 Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company .
15 It all started when she saw a hamster in a pet shop and decided to get another to keep him company .
16 The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places .
17 Tony Reynolds runs British Motorsports for the Disabled and was planning to keep him company on the journey .
18 He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta .
19 And we keep him prisoner here till he signs .
20 And more pleased than ever when Captain Goldsborough , arriving rather late as somehow one had expected , went to sit beside him and keep him company .
21 And er he er we used to go there and play with , you know , three or four hours and keep him company , like .
22 Downton and Emburey kept him company for a while , and when number eleven Dilley joined him he had 69 ; when Dilley was out for 2 next morning Willey had completed his century , a splendid 102 not out that took England to 271 , Croft finishing with 6 for 74 .
23 Baptiste kept him company for a while as he blazed away , but when the ninth wicket fell with the score on 166 and fourteen overs still unused , it seemed that his effort would be in vain .
24 Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven .
25 It kept him company on Once Hill and as he pushed the bicycle into the garage and leant it against the Suffolk Punch .
26 But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages .
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