Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your duty tonight is not to wash up , but to allow the Master to slaughter you on the black and white field — unless you play a game as wicked as Papa 's — in which case you may finish off what the Africans began on me ! ’ |
| 2 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 3 | Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow |
| 4 | The RHAS take centre stage with the DHAs beneath them on the left and FPCs on the right . |
| 5 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 6 | So long as you ke keep me on the straight and narrow at the same time really . |
| 7 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 8 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 10 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 11 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 12 | Both made from remnants of terylene bought by Madeleine at a sale in Le Havre and run up by her on the black and gold sewing-machine you had to pedal like a toy car . |
| 13 | Well could we have it on the sixth and change the committee day ? . |
| 14 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 15 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |