Example sentences of "to keep him in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 2 | So far , we 've been able to keep him in check . |
| 3 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |
| 4 | No well I was , I was just telling him something and I said I 'm not telling you till er ten thirty just to keep him in suspense . |
| 5 | In April , the company unexpectedly obtained new contracts which might have made it possible for it to keep him in work . |
| 6 | Your name ? ’ so fast that Creggan had to circle to keep him in sight , and could not keep a clear eye on the other one approaching from above . |
| 7 | Here you are Stacey come on sit up come on oh managed to keep him in bed with you all night , here are |
| 8 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 9 | He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments . |
| 10 | With the advantage of hindsight , we can take stock of the position at this point , but at the time the Colonel had only runners to keep him in touch with his headquarters and forward Troops , whose wirelesses had been knocked out . |
| 11 | The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments . |
| 12 | The discussion customarily takes place in the early evening in the Home Secretary 's room at the Commons , and is intended to keep him in touch with backbench opinion . |
| 13 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 14 | The Prior of Lewes , Robert Peterson , collected a number of cathedral offices around England to keep him in comfort . |
| 15 | Soon , though , she drops her fancy prose and concentrates on the relationship , almost sexual in its intensity , between Mr Castro and enough Cubans to keep him in power without the brutal repression that most Caribbean dictators go in for . |
| 16 | In February 1974 , Mr Heath lost his overall majority , but remained in office for several days while he tried to do a deal with Mr Jeremy Thorpe and the Liberals to keep him in power . |
| 17 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 18 | The man he relied on to keep him in power . ’ |
| 19 | At a time when managers in other companies worried about being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , the IBMer had his Career Manager to keep him in view . |
| 20 | Last season , he served a six-month suspension for misdemeanours in the Hong Kong Open and referee John Robinson , an ex-policeman , seemed determined to keep him in line . |
| 21 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 22 | The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line . |