Example sentences of "keep him 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |