Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were determined their honeymoon should be too , despite equal determination on behalf of the world 's press to keep them company . |
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| 3 | So now I have just the toys to keep me company . |
| 4 | She was prepared to come to Edinburgh with me again , and even go to gay discos with me to keep me company . |
| 5 | Jim thought , ‘ Hello , is someone coming up to keep me company ? ’ and went to the door and looked out down the steps . |
| 6 | Derek had come along too , to keep me company and because he fancied the idea of hunting with hawks . |
| 7 | I went , but my friend would n't speak to me , let alone come out to keep me company . |
| 8 | What a fool I am , he thought , still to mourn for a lost past and a girl who existed only in my imagination , the reality being so different , when I have this ardent , hardworking … child … to keep me company , so different from the mercenary beauty who has just left . |
| 9 | Harvey watched me down the drinks and he downed three just to keep me company . |
| 10 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't want us boys to keep you company at the reception , senator ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I prefer to keep you company . |
| 12 | Nine o'clock on the late show babysitting for me all this week , Adrian and then one o'clock till six o'clock during the early hours of Thursday the fifteenth of July , to keep you company , it 's Mark . |
| 13 | Friend Connon might even turn up to keep you company . |
| 14 | Having your cosy liaison disrupted was never going to go down easily , but think on the bright side — at least I 'm here to keep you company . |
| 15 | ‘ Do I have to get drunk every night just to keep you company ? |
| 16 | And in any case , ’ she added , ‘ if you are lonely I 'm sure there must be any number of — of people you can ask here to keep you company . ’ |
| 17 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 18 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 19 | we 'll hang Snowden and Thomas to keep him company ; |
| 20 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 21 | My son is a dying junkie , but he does n't want to die alone so he 's encouraging Robin-Anne to keep him company and now she 's become addicted to cocaine and it wo n't be very long before she 's smoking crack and trying speedballs . ’ |
| 22 | He had chain-smoked all the way down and Adam had had one or two to keep him company , though he did n't really like putting something lighted in his mouth . |
| 23 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 24 | And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 26 | It all started when she saw a hamster in a pet shop and decided to get another to keep him company . |
| 27 | The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places . |
| 28 | Tony Reynolds runs British Motorsports for the Disabled and was planning to keep him company on the journey . |
| 29 | He watched the engineer go , and then turned and let them take him up to the wall-walk , and down into the beleaguered city where , once , the Genoese had planned to keep him hostage while his company fought for Carlotta . |
| 30 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |