Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " 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 | ‘ Nothing takes make-up off faster than chicken grease so we had to keep them away from that , ’ continues Drexler . |
| 3 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 4 | But Eva had to keep them away from him , saying if it was very urgent they could leave a note . |
| 5 | We 've got to keep them away from Daak . |
| 6 | But remember to keep them away from very young brothers or sisters who may think they are sweets and try to eat them . |
| 7 | Anyway , most of these girls grew out of these crushes — soon the great problem was to keep them away from the Grammar School boys at the other end of the road . |
| 8 | The most obvious way is to keep them indoors at times of sexual activity . |
| 9 | For many of these species it is possible to keep them indoors in conditions which are very much better than the average conditions that are used now . |
| 10 | And , as the reborn Terminal 3 shows , to keep them ahead of their competitors . |
| 11 | By nine months your doctor and midwife will have gathered and recorded sufficient details about your pregnancy to keep them well in the picture for the arrival of your baby . |
| 12 | But the story of the Gesta did not end in 1109. just as later monks came back to the Flemish comital genealogies to keep them up to date and to add new material , so the Gesta attracted amplification . |
| 13 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 14 | and they have to keep them up to date . |
| 15 | He in turn contacted Searle 's agent Rachel Calder at the Tessa Sayle agency ( the lengths we will go to satisfy a reader 's enquiry ) , who confirms that Searle indeed often rewrites his captions , ‘ to keep them up to date ’ . |
| 16 | In return , the ABT runs courses for full- and part-time teachers to keep them up to date with developments in banking education . |
| 17 | Not all class members can attend rallies etc , they , and the Society , depend on you to keep them up to date with the latest stock . |
| 18 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 19 | Do not overtighten the screws — you want to be able to remove them whenever any yarn gets caught in them , to keep them always in a ‘ spinning ’ condition . |
| 20 | And not just because as teenagers it is no longer that easy to keep them safely by your side . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 22 | School holidays started soon and maybe a pet would help to keep them out of mischief . |
| 23 | This is a result of pressure from British , French , Spanish and Belgian beer manufacturers which claim Germany is using this law to keep them out of its ( huge ) market . |
| 24 | Their mission was to cut the railway lines Lyons — Châlon-sur-Saône — Dijon — Paris , and Le Creusot — Nevers , and to keep them out of action by continuing attacks . |
| 25 | For working class folk wanting to borrow sums between £2 10s and £100 to keep them out of debt or buy something special , the Government passed legislation in 1835 ( 5 & 6 William IV cap 23 ) creating Loan Societies . |
| 26 | ‘ To be honest I wanted to keep them out of all this . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're not going to be able to keep them out of this . |
| 28 | Children were swaddled shortly after birth , to keep them out of mother 's way . |
| 29 | " " You can try , El-ahrairah , and if you succeed I will multiply your people everywhere and no one will be able to keep them out of a vegetable garden from now till the end of the world . |
| 30 | According to a recent report from the Consumers Association , a dose of only 3g of iron is enough to kill a toddler , yet few vitamin and mineral supplements are sold in child-resistant packs , so it 's vital to keep them out of the reach of children . |