Example sentences of "[noun sg] to keep [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 2 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |
| 3 | The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is . |
| 4 | The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line . |
| 5 | The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process . |
| 6 | The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business . |
| 7 | It is not recorded in what mischief the Lord Mayor of York used to indulge , but the Lady Mayoress had a three foot long staff of honour to keep him in order ! |
| 8 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 9 | This was not merely because the new function of the bourgeois wife , to show off the capacity of the bourgeois husband to keep her in leisure and luxury , conflicted with the old functions of actually running a household , but also because her inferiority to the man must be demonstrable : |
| 10 | We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place . |
| 11 | And they 'd need to hold a gun to Piggott 's head to keep him in hospital a day — no an hour — longer than strictly necessary . |
| 12 | He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order ! |
| 13 | We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world . |
| 14 | Roxburgh said : ‘ One of the staff will be at the game with a portable ‘ phone to keep me in touch . |
| 15 | Traditionally , the ribbon weave was left loose , but it 's easier to use interfacing to keep it in place . |
| 16 | Although the party had secured only 8,360,000 votes compared with the 8,664,000 who voted Conservative , it had won most seats in parliament and it became inevitable that it should form a second minority government , once again relying upon Liberal Party support to keep it in office . |
| 17 | At a time when managers in other companies worried about being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , the IBMer had his Career Manager to keep him in view . |
| 18 | Thus , where a lease contained a covenant to build certain buildings by a specified date and an obligation to keep them in repair , it was held that once the tenant had failed to build the buildings on time , no further covenant to build could be implied from the covenant to repair ( Stephens v Junior Army and Navy Stores [ 1914 ] 2 Ch 516 ) . |
| 19 | I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’ |
| 20 | Equally , where the lift is an essential means of access he will be under a duty to take reasonable care to keep it in working order ( Liverpool City Council v Irwin ) . |
| 21 | They need a fear of heavenly retribution to keep them in order . |
| 22 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 23 | He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments . |
| 24 | She had not yet learned how greatly Brian exaggerated his financial problems in order to keep her in line . |
| 25 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 26 | The Nepalese rupee was devalued against the US dollar by 20.96 per cent in two moves on July 2 and 3 in order to keep it in line with the recently devalued India rupee [ see p. 38334 ] . |
| 27 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 28 | ‘ In fact , children do not need systems of punishment and reward to keep them in line , but they do need discipline . |