Example sentences of "keep [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 2 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 4 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 5 | Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow |
| 6 | now lets hear three cheers for Gloucester rugby club … on Saturday they won at London Irish in the league … a victory that could help keep them in the first division |
| 7 | From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette . |
| 8 | I could keep one in the green Eurobonds advert . |
| 9 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 11 | That and the Governments troubles should keep us off the front page for a day or two . |
| 12 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 13 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 14 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 15 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 16 | Even if we drop a shot because Jacklin makes four , it still keeps us in the Open . |
| 17 | The ambiguous status of blacks , as neither invaders nor indigenous Americans , caused some controversy but it was agreed to keep them within the overall campaign . |
| 18 | We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills . |
| 19 | Whoever takes control of Oxford has got a job on to keep them in the second division … they 're six points adrift at the bottom … but on Saturday United faired best of the three Central South sides … they drew while Swindon and Hereford both lost |
| 20 | Like the silkmoth , ants sense pheromones through their antennae ; but they make continual use of both antennae to keep them in the right direction . |
| 21 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 22 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 23 | Then they tore in a wild , bumpy , breakneck race across the rough heath to Scawby Marsh and got ropes round the poor terrified pony just in time to keep him above the shifting surface before the marsh engulfed him . |
| 24 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
| 25 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 26 | But there 's a big question mark over whether they could afford to keep him in the Third Division . |
| 27 | When , some time later , one appeared , Owen handed the youth over to him with strict instructions to keep him in the local caracol until Owen would question him . |
| 28 | Italian pop star Loredana Berte told a judge she needs the massive handouts to keep her in the luxurious style she enjoyed when they were together . |
| 29 | His agent , Giles Gordon of Sheil Land , had reacted to the sight of the manuscript with alarm , but was won around by reading it : ‘ He said that perhaps it should be cut a bit , but that we should aim to keep it to the same kind of scale . ’ |
| 30 | She was to keep it for the next three and a half years . |