Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest problem with seeds was to keep them dry and free from rats . |
| 2 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 3 | Well as I understand they must have had pumps down there or something to or something to keep them dry because er |
| 4 | No , cos I want to keep them dry cos you can wear them tomorrow . |
| 5 | Kalm noted that the spent tan was afterwards spread in the garden as manure and that nothing was laid On pots in the summer , compared with Moscow where he had seen sawdust used to keep them moist . |
| 6 | You 've got to water them to keep them moist in the summer and you 've got to have food of course . |
| 7 | He got up , put the plates of food in the range oven to keep them hot , then went down to see if Mrs Beavis could help . |
| 8 | You will need an oilstone to keep them sharp . |
| 9 | Vocals went straight down with only the minimum of top end EQ to keep them sharp , and when I went for the final mixdown I have to say I was amazed at how big a sound was coming back from the monitors . |
| 10 | Since these are sometimes confusingly conflated , it is helpful to keep them separate even though they are not mutually exclusive ( see Fig. 24.2 ) . |
| 11 | But , although these concepts ( standardness , eliteness , carefulness ) are of different orders ( and we shall return to these distinctions ) , Dobson does not apparently see any reason to keep them separate . |
| 12 | The UK solution to the need for a continuous and systematic comparison of the two is to keep them separate as far as the double-entry is concerned but to report them side-by-side . |
| 13 | We have tried to keep them simple to prepare , bearing in mind that most of us are busy and therefore prefer to spend the minimum time possible preparing food . |
| 14 | We have brought down interest rates and we are determined to keep them low . |
| 15 | We owe it to gastronomy to keep them alive . |
| 16 | PEOPLE should carry ‘ switch-me-off ’ cards to help doctors decide whether to keep them alive if there is no hope of recovery , the British Medical Association said yesterday . |
| 17 | I wanted to find a compromise in decorating this tank , between a tangled mass of bogwood for the fish to enjoy , and having some water left to keep them alive . |
| 18 | Doctors are obliged by law to keep them alive while there is a chance of recovery . |
| 19 | There are twenty-eight US passengers on that plane and my Government wants to keep them alive . ’ |
| 20 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 21 | You 're paying them starvation wages , and someone else therefore is keeping them alive , might be their husbands , it might be the state giving them charity , it might be the state giving them pensions or unemployment benefits , it might be charities giving them clothes and food just to keep them alive , and that that 's immoral . |
| 22 | You know , about the crime statistics ; really what she 's saying is that parents ought to do a better job for their children , and I 'm sure we all agree with that but I think that that 's a very superficial response to what is er an enormous question of parents just being too poor and having nothing to give their children in the way of just basic food , basic medicines , to keep them alive . |
| 23 | It was a dour afternoon , with few men and women in the streets , which had a pinched , frozen look as if there were not enough fires burning in the houses to keep them snug . |
| 24 | The fish and amphibians had the sea to keep them cool , and the neo-reptiles , ‘ designed ’ to cope with drying-up ponds , hibernated in the mud . |
| 25 | When they left the hospital he studied Ling 's list , and within a short time the purchases had been made , the sausages being stored in a coolbox to keep them cool . |
| 26 | Well you want to keep them cool . |
| 27 | But she had to keep them loyal . |
| 28 | The crews were given caffeine tablets to keep them awake during the long flights and sometimes we managed to get hold of a few . |
| 29 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 30 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |