Example sentences of "[noun sg] to keep [pron] [prep] [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 This seems eminently reasonable , quite apart from its association with the Spinozist idea that all motivation is the attempt of a personal essence to keep itself in actuality in the fullest possible way .
5 The second tactic he regards as an attempt to keep him in line .
6 Having chosen the shift which suits it best , each animal relies on its circadian rhythm to keep it on schedule .
7 The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process .
8 The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business .
9 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 !
10 Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order .
11 ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , her desire to keep him at arm 's length dwindling to nothing .
12 If you are really living in a mess , have a grand clear-out and put the whole place straight ; after that try to discipline yourself to dean and tidy on a regular basis to keep it under control .
13 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 :
14 Where the bottom is weedy ( ordinary soft weed , not algae ) you can incorporate a cork or piece of polystyrene into the feeder to keep it on top of the weed ( see Fig. 3 ) .
15 We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place .
16 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 .
17 He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order !
18 They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites .
19 We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world .
20 Roxburgh said : ‘ One of the staff will be at the game with a portable ‘ phone to keep me in touch .
21 When the two truckers gave up their cursory attempt to find him and rejoined their companions , he advanced to the edge of the clearing to keep them under observation .
22 Councillors were flown to France to see a PWR in operation , to Torness to see how luxurious the workers , accommodation could be — an attraction to keep them on site and out of trouble .
23 Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay .
24 Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets .
25 Undertakers ' men and grave-diggers had to be copiously supplied with liquor to keep them at work , and this added to the disorder and indecency .
26 Traditionally , the ribbon weave was left loose , but it 's easier to use interfacing to keep it in place .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The capitulation has been signed , the army is under arrest , the Emperor , sunk back in a corner of his large carriage , is gloomy and dull-eyed ; he smokes a cigarette to keep himself in countenance , and though a tempest is raging within him , tries to appear impassive .
30 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 ) .
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