Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 2 | Western economies are certainly prone to crises , but the state seems able to keep them in check . |
| 3 | A Yellow Tangs are very popular aquarium fish and many hobbyists try to keep them in shoals . |
| 4 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 5 | They need a fear of heavenly retribution to keep them in order . |
| 6 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 7 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 8 | Only moss will do and 2 tons of it — freshly handpicked — has to be taken on tour to keep them in peak condition . |
| 9 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |
| 10 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 11 | I do n't want to keep them in containers . |
| 12 | Ben moved across to the other side s ) f the window , trying to keep them in sight , but he lost them in a moment . |
| 13 | They are the weaknesses which can be exploited to keep men at work producing the goods which this society needs , and to keep them in subjection . |
| 14 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |
| 15 | Thus , where a lease contained a covenant to build certain buildings by a specified date and an obligation to keep them in repair , it was held that once the tenant had failed to build the buildings on time , no further covenant to build could be implied from the covenant to repair ( Stephens v Junior Army and Navy Stores [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 516 ) . |
| 16 | He was the man who supplied the new bicycles , Raleighs , and he undertook to keep them in repair . |
| 17 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 18 | There are loads of baddies , and the world needs some goodies to keep them in hand . |
| 19 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 20 | Inflation called for an uplift in many maximum fines , with a power being conferred upon the Home Secretary to adjust financial limits in the future by order , having first obtained the approval of both Houses of Parliament , so as to keep them in step with subsequent changes in the value of money . |
| 21 | To keep them in tutelage to the CNAA was both humiliating and unfair . |
| 22 | By now , a hundred people have lined up in front of him and a security guard begins to keep them in line . |
| 23 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 24 | Presumably when the ( outside ? ) directors of the company meet they will discuss the earnings of the top managerial staff , and attempt to keep them in line with the manager 's worth ( marginal product ) to the company . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact , children do not need systems of punishment and reward to keep them in line , but they do need discipline . |
| 26 | Elections , strikes , riots , pressure group lobbying , and decisions by law courts continuously serve to adjust state policies to keep them in touch with movements and realignments of multiple class fractions and strata . |
| 27 | Peers may also miss today 's Competition game against Mochdre , but the skills of Darren Peters and all-rounder Kevin Owen could still earn them the points needed to keep them in touch with the pacemakers . |
| 28 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 29 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 30 | He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order ! |