Example sentences of "keep they [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 2 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 3 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 4 | Erm and they will keep them in the archives and I suppose transcribe them or something of the sort . |
| 5 | Keeps them off the streets does n't it ? |
| 6 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 7 | What Aristotle had seen as the vice of the pharaohs , Cardinal Richelieu raised to a maxim of policy for Louis XIII , whom he advised ‘ all politicians agree that when the people are too comfortable , it is impossible to keep them within the bounds of their duty … |
| 8 | I tend to keep them in the originals cos then I if I need to . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’ |
| 10 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 11 | ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah |
| 12 | ‘ Keep them off the boats ! ’ cried the doctor . |
| 13 | Their influence was far more diffuse and elusive ; as one teacher put it , ‘ we keep them in the backs of our minds ’ . |
| 14 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |