Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 2 | Will you keep them for a while ? ’ |
| 3 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 4 | There you are young Walter , and that 'll keep you for a week . |
| 5 | She can keep him for the moment . |
| 6 | I shall keep it for a bit longer Clare |
| 7 | John wo n't mind , let's keep it for the night , and take it back tomorrow morning . |
| 8 | In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity . |
| 9 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got enough money to keep you for the rest of your life . |
| 11 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 12 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 13 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 14 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Just keep them for the telly then . |
| 18 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 19 | Jake took him off me , kept him for a week , then brought him back , right as rain . |
| 20 | Then you can either put it back on to the soil it came from or , before doing this , keep it for a day or two in a small container lined with damp paper tissue . |
| 21 | So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have |
| 22 | ‘ All right , Sandy , keep it for the wedding . |
| 23 | But yesterday Labour candidate Alan Milburn said : ‘ It was n't Darlington Council who imposed the poll tax on the town or who kept it for a year longer than necessary . |
| 24 | He kept it for a talisman , taking it with him in his pocket when he married Maria Filippa , and on the boat when they crossed the ocean to New York . |
| 25 | Blyth Tait says that the last time he won the top spot from Mary he only kept it for a week and is hoping to hang onto it for longer this time . |
| 26 | It was n't easy to make a show with such diverse voices pull together and some of what I wrote did n't fit in ( I kept it for The Pie of Damocles later that year though ) . |
| 27 | Or else he could have fed and kept you for the rest of your life ! ’ |
| 28 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |