Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 2 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 3 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 4 | It was started as a response to the existing state education system in place under apartheid , in which ‘ black children were educated in a way geared to keeping them as a docile , compliant labour force ’ , according to a colleague of the School . |
| 5 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 6 | I 'm not surprised your Julidochromis have n't bred and have fallen out if you are keeping them in a community tank ! |
| 7 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 8 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 9 | Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof . |
| 10 | It 's keeping you on the bike . |
| 11 | Around and About : keeping you in the know |
| 12 | Keeping you in the news |
| 13 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 14 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 15 | The Doc 's patented micro-organisms were beavering away inside , keeping her at the peak of perfection . |
| 16 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 17 | " That 'll please you , wo n't it , keeping him in a muck sweat . |
| 18 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 19 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 20 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 21 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 22 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 23 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 24 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
| 25 | I can understand like you picking one up to get rid of it if you 're not scared of it , but playing with one , keeping it as a pet ! |
| 26 | But did she really use a potty at night , keeping it in a cupboard by her bed ? |
| 27 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 28 | But the PRO is charged with keeping it in the public eye . |
| 29 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 30 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |