Example sentences of "[noun] to keep [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 2 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |
| 3 | The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is . |
| 4 | The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line . |
| 5 | The Prior of Lewes , Robert Peterson , collected a number of cathedral offices around England to keep him in comfort . |
| 6 | The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process . |
| 7 | There are loads of baddies , and the world needs some goodies to keep them in hand . |
| 8 | The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 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 | He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order ! |
| 15 | We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world . |
| 16 | Roxburgh said : ‘ One of the staff will be at the game with a portable ‘ phone to keep me in touch . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Traditionally , the ribbon weave was left loose , but it 's easier to use interfacing to keep it in place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The filter body sits on a hanger equipped with four of Eheim 's excellent suckers to keep it in place . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | They need a fear of heavenly retribution to keep them in order . |
| 30 | 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 . |