Example sentences of "[adv] to keep [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 2 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 3 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 6 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 7 | She wondered whether , if Mrs Khalid were in love with her son 's friend Sharif , would she do as Rhoda had done , try to marry off her daughter to Sharif just to keep him in the family ? |
| 8 | Not only is the audience told what has just happened , it is told what is going to happen , just to keep you in the picture . |
| 9 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 10 | The Conservative Party 's new chairman , Chris Patten , has told Marxism Today of his interest in the German idea of a ‘ social market ’ , which believes it is possible to unleash capitalism 's efficiency but also to keep it under the supervising eye of society : to combine the engine of individualism and a communal conscience . |
| 11 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |