Example sentences of "keep him in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 2 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 3 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 4 | Why do n't you just keep him in the clinic ? ’ and shrugged her angry retort aside . |
| 5 | Instead of leaving Deanein the reserves as he did with rocky he 'll keep him in the firsts and he 'll come good . |
| 6 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 7 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 8 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 9 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 10 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 11 | He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture . |
| 12 | He is refreshingly straightforward and forthright , embarrassing Labour 's image makers who attempted to keep him in the background as much as possible during the election campaign . |
| 13 | She wondered whether , if Mrs Khalid were in love with her son 's friend Sharif , would she do as Rhoda had done , try to marry off her daughter to Sharif just to keep him in the family ? |
| 14 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 15 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 16 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |
| 17 | Quite clearly he was torn between his desire to excuse himself from further cross-examination and his obedience to the protocol which kept him in the presence of a member of the Royal Family until he was dismissed . |
| 18 | He stood greeting guests in his dinner jacket , standing alongside Balestre , whose presidency of the FIA kept him in the limelight . |
| 19 | BIRMINGHAM CITY manager Terry Cooper yesterday claimed that chairman Samesh Kumar kept him in the dark about the club being put up for sale . |
| 20 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 21 | If the truth be told , it was Norman 's putter which kept him in the hunt down the stretch . |
| 22 | The queasiness which had first compelled him to come back to the house that evening clawed him again , and kept him in the chair under her fond glances and bids to intimacy . |
| 23 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 24 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 25 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |