Example sentences of "[verb] keep him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 2 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 3 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 4 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 5 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |
| 6 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |
| 7 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 8 | He is refreshingly straightforward and forthright , embarrassing Labour 's image makers who attempted to keep him in the background as much as possible during the election campaign . |