Example sentences of "to keep him [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 2 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 3 | we 'll hang Snowden and Thomas to keep him company ; |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It has come into my mind that he needs a wife , one of his own kind , to keep him company . |
| 8 | And then , realising that his presence needed further explanation , he added , ‘ Jim asked me to keep him company until his sister gets here tomorrow . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 10 | It all started when she saw a hamster in a pet shop and decided to get another to keep him company . |
| 11 | The brother of a man jailed for seven years in Baghdad has offered to keep him company , or even change places . |
| 12 | Tony Reynolds runs British Motorsports for the Disabled and was planning to keep him company on the journey . |
| 13 | 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 . |