Example sentences of "to keep us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her teaching mostly consisted of falling asleep while we children fought each other , but Mr Wopsle 's young cousin , Biddy , tried to keep us under control and teach us to read , write and count . |
| 2 | ‘ Or he could just have wished to have an excuse for placing men near the chateau to keep us under closer observation . |
| 3 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 4 | The new season has brought us a new county and a few new rules to keep us on our guard . |
| 5 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 6 | But he had to keep us on that . |
| 7 | We need our ordinary grumbling members to keep us on our toes . |
| 8 | eat the right amount of energy ( calories ) to keep us at the right weight |
| 9 | And he 'll use that to keep us at a distance . |
| 10 | You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow . |
| 11 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 12 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 13 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
| 14 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 15 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 16 | We 've been flying here since September , but our wives have regularly sent out Country Living to keep us in touch . |
| 17 | ‘ They came to keep us in parley , while you assault us . ’ |
| 18 | The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is . |
| 19 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 20 | There is indeed quite an amount of contemporary music which seems designed to keep us in a state of perpetual shock . |
| 21 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 22 | You may walk with me like a civilised man if you care to , but I warn you there 'll be an archer behind to keep us in view , so 1 would n't advise you to try any tricks , they 'd do you no good . ’ |
| 23 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |
| 24 | His desire is to keep us inside our barracks ( or , more appositely , behind the battlements of our homes ) . |