Example sentences of "keep they [prep] [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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back .
5 I 'm not surprised your Julidochromis have n't bred and have fallen out if you are keeping them in a community tank !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away .
10 Will you keep them for a while ? ’
11 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 .
12 Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil .
13 Down below the bridge , he knew , about eight or nine shambling street people would be setting up the plastic pallets and bakers ' trays that would keep them off the floor for the night .
14 In America they would keep them in a home until they were old enough to go into a jail
15 But of course that does keep them in a job .
16 we 'll keep them in a book .
17 But if building rocky edifices is not your style then you can keep them in a tank with just a few normal caves ( or flowerpots ) ( Lanistes shells being regrettably unavailable to hobbyists ) .
18 Since Mr Kinnock will keep them in the ERM and impoverish them still further , they will get no joy of him .
19 Any fool can go out , ring a bell , shout his head off , and get some new customers , but will he keep them in the future ?
20 We do n't keep them in the house . ’
21 Well I would n't keep them in the garage anyway .
22 Only another mathematical miricle will keep them from the play offs .
23 Then begin the real gaieties of Harrogate , then the money flies , and what the landlords of those two establishments take in six weeks keeps them during the rest of the year . ’
24 Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum .
25 Keeps them in a tin trunk in his pillbox .
26 Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap .
27 The high viscosity of these solutions keeps them in the eye longer , while the polymer itself is intended to mimic the ocular mucins ( glycoproteins ) , a deficiency of which is often the cause of dry eye symptoms , and promote tear film stability .
28 Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water .
29 ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’
30 The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C .
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