Example sentences of "to keep it in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This teleprinter machine was a temperamental beast and had to be carefully watched to make sure it did n't run out of paper , or chew it into shreds or otherwise make a mess of things , and it was one of our duties as Met Assistants to keep it in order . |
| 2 | If a wheel starts to spin , the brake attached to it squeezes just enough to keep it in check while the engine throttles back . |
| 3 | He , if anyone , would be guaranteed to keep it in check . |
| 4 | The Conti family held on to Sora after the election of Innocent 's successor , Honorius III , who wished to retain their loyalty and allowed them to keep it in return for payment , but lost the territory back to the Regno after a successful campaign by Frederick II in 1221 . |
| 5 | Equally , where the lift is an essential means of access he will be under a duty to take reasonable care to keep it in working order ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin ) . |
| 6 | But it may be well to keep it in existence . ’ |
| 7 | He was also very good at playing the ball down the line , bending it to keep it in play — and take play up to near their corner flag cos all the defender could do was kick it out ( then Vinny steps up : - ) |
| 8 | It must take up all of your spare time just to keep it in tune . |
| 9 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 10 | You can use paper of similar thickness but unless you stick it in some way to the faces it is difficult to keep it in position when assembling the cores into the bobbin and bolting it down to the board . |
| 11 | The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process . |
| 12 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 13 | He has little difficulty in pulling summer sheets and other light rugs straight over his head , even if there are straps under his tummy , so at night he has a rug with leg straps to keep it in place . |
| 14 | The filter body sits on a hanger equipped with four of Eheim 's excellent suckers to keep it in place . |
| 15 | Traditionally , the ribbon weave was left loose , but it 's easier to use interfacing to keep it in place . |
| 16 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 17 | And here too , you can see how sturdily the once-wandering river Adour has been walled in , to keep it in place . |
| 18 | Although you are here , on the summit , at 9,400 feet , well above the permanent snow line in the Pyrenees , which starts at about 8,500 feet , there is seldom any snow in the summer , because the sides of the mountain are too steep , especially on the north side , to keep it in place . |
| 19 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 20 | Determined to keep it in place , Nicholas mobilized his troops . |
| 21 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 22 | The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business . |
| 23 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 24 | The Nepalese rupee was devalued against the US dollar by 20.96 per cent in two moves on July 2 and 3 in order to keep it in line with the recently devalued India rupee [ see p. 38334 ] . |