Example sentences of "keep him in the [noun sg] " 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 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 6 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He stood greeting guests in his dinner jacket , standing alongside Balestre , whose presidency of the FIA kept him in the limelight . |
| 17 | BIRMINGHAM CITY manager Terry Cooper yesterday claimed that chairman Samesh Kumar kept him in the dark about the club being put up for sale . |
| 18 | If the truth be told , it was Norman 's putter which kept him in the hunt down the stretch . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 21 | Only Pears ’ consistency has kept him in the background . ’ |
| 22 | He was shivering , and his teeth were chattering like Philip 's did when his Dad had kept him in the swimming bath too long . |