Example sentences of "[coord] keep it [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check . |
| 2 | The harp is , however , susceptible to fluctuations of heat and humidity , and keeping it in tune may require its re-tuning even during a service . |
| 3 | The Founders were to be the guardians of the purity of the paper , protecting it and keeping it in touch with the grass roots which they represented . |
| 4 | Something provides direction and keeps it in order . |
| 5 | So we propose to cut that support by half in this year and to keep it under review for future years as well . |
| 6 | Rather than attempting to stifle mental conflict and to keep it from consciousness as would have been the trend in nineteenth and early twentieth-century culture , modern cultural trends instead encourage acting-out and expression of the conflict as being more ‘ healthy ’ than repression . |
| 7 | It had been found difficult to control money supply and to keep it within target ranges . |
| 8 | As the recently-formed RAF Museum was still several years away from having its own permanent display building , D'Arcy persuaded the Air Historical Branch to release PA474 to him in order that he could properly restore it and keep it under cover . |
| 9 | erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism . |
| 10 | Keep a sprig separate from the decorations and pop it into a vase of water in a cool place , and keep it until spring . |
| 11 | If you take any wild animal and keep it in captivity ( I would have to say most wild animals ; some insects might be taken into captivity without any suffering , but if you take vertebrates into captivity there is certainly going to be suffering ) , sometimes the animals will die very quickly after being brought into captivity , and again there is often an effect on the functioning of the immune system because they often succumb to diseases which would not otherwise have killed them . |
| 12 | However , it is the drugs companies that have bolstered the UK 's total R&D expenditure and kept it above inflation . |
| 13 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 14 | I thought ‘ interesting ’ and kept it for pet for about three weeks ; I called it George , and people would give me extra helpings ‘ because you 're eating for two now . ’ |
| 15 | Answer your first-choice question and , if you finish or run out of anything else to write before the allocated time , do not give the extra time to the second question but keep it in reserve for the end of the examination . |