Example sentences of "keep him on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
| 2 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 3 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 4 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 5 | ‘ It will keep him on his toes . |
| 6 | And to me he added , " That 'll keep him on the run . " |
| 7 | That 'll keep him on his toes . |
| 8 | I 'll keep him on that stuff |
| 9 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 10 | He thinks this keeps him on his mettle , but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word . |
| 11 | Corsie 's great escape keeps him on title trail |
| 12 | He takes first place in the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez , although Alain Prost comes third to keep him on course for Senna 's title . |
| 13 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 14 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 15 | After a month the crystals cleared and my vet advised me to keep him on Hills Science Diet CD . |
| 16 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 17 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 18 | She had been following a trail Minter had turned his back on , but Harry had the photographs to keep him on course . |
| 19 | Oh that copper , he said he , he said the thing is he said what you 've got ta do is give him as much shit and aggravation as you can possibly give him , keep him hot and keep him roasted up he said because what happens is he 's getting along , long and he 's thinking oh I can do this and I can do that and I can do the other , he said but if you can get your solicitor to keep him on his toes he ai n't got time to think about nothing , he said and if he has done that job himself , he 's laughing at the moment , I said well he must have done it |
| 20 | Keep him on the move until he 's dried off — if necessary , lunge him . |
| 21 | Repeated treatments as required keep him on his feet . |
| 22 | Keep him on biscuits and brown bread rusked in the oven . |
| 23 | It 's your job to evaluate the stuff and keep him on the ball . |
| 24 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 25 | Thereafter the company of the other horses kept him on course , and a bad mistake at the water jump on the second circuit worked to Mandarin 's advantage , as it put him back to fifth place and gave him horses to follow . |
| 26 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 27 | When the fans were screaming for him to play Clive Allen , Reid kept him on the bench . |
| 28 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 29 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
| 30 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |