Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 2 | Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 6 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 12 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |
| 13 | Do I get a prize for being the 1000th person to point out that guitar music is written up an octave , not down , to keep it on the treble clef ? |
| 14 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 15 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 16 | So long as you ke keep me on the straight and narrow at the same time really . |
| 17 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 18 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 19 | Let's see keep , keep it on the same line if you can . |
| 20 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 21 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |