Example sentences of "to keep her [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like when she was eight , and Dead Daddy put her on Hero-9 to keep her under control . |
| 2 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 3 | She was only here because he 'd manoeuvred it ; now he seemed determined to keep her at arm 's length . |
| 4 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 5 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 6 | They then progressed to half-pass ; coming up the centre line and then performing half-pass towards E. Jennie told Katharine to keep her inside leg on the girth , as the horse should bend in the direction of the movement , as opposed to leg-yielding where the horse keeps in a straight line . |
| 7 | Or are you hoping to keep her in ignorance so you can go back to her when you get tired of me and start wanting to respect yourself again ? |
| 8 | There 's no opposition in parliament any more to keep her in check . |
| 9 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 10 | With a slight shake of his head Travis walked inside , turning to keep her in view as she closed the door again . |
| 11 | She had not yet learned how greatly Brian exaggerated his financial problems in order to keep her in line . |
| 12 | This was not merely because the new function of the bourgeois wife , to show off the capacity of the bourgeois husband to keep her in leisure and luxury , conflicted with the old functions of actually running a household , but also because her inferiority to the man must be demonstrable : |
| 13 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 14 | After being convicted of controlling prostitutes , Sandra Brown , 45 , hired eminent barrister Richard Ferguson , QC , to keep her from jail . |