Example sentences of "to keep it on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the bottom is weedy ( ordinary soft weed , not algae ) you can incorporate a cork or piece of polystyrene into the feeder to keep it on top of the weed ( see Fig. 3 ) . |
| 2 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 3 | Do I get a prize for being the 1000th person to point out that guitar music is written up an octave , not down , to keep it on the treble clef ? |
| 4 | The last was an inspired idea , a riding horse with an acreage to keep it on being quite a status symbol . |
| 5 | In effect , each is swearing to keep it on pain of death . |
| 6 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 7 | As it moves , the scorpion relies on information from air passing over its hairs to keep it on a straight course . |
| 8 | Having chosen the shift which suits it best , each animal relies on its circadian rhythm to keep it on schedule . |
| 9 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |