Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] in [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon the average user will keep it in working order for ages — I kill them at roughly yearly intervals . |
| 2 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 3 | Only moss will do and 2 tons of it — freshly handpicked — has to be taken on tour to keep them in peak condition . |
| 4 | I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’ |
| 5 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 6 | Equally , where the lift is an essential means of access he will be under a duty to take reasonable care to keep it in working order ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin ) . |
| 7 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 8 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 9 | It was Uncle Bean who provided the rock on which she occasionally rested , who kept them in horse feed and bought them the swimming gear she hankered after . |