Example sentences of "[noun sg] to keep [pron] 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 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 The US continued to pour money into the South to keep it in power , again sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process .
7 The whole workforce turned up outside the Bentley Piano factory at Woodchester as part of their battle to keep it in business .
8 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 !
9 Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order .
10 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 :
11 We have been told there should have been clips at the back to keep it in place .
12 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 .
13 He 's not all that crazy about Pogo anyway — he says he is n't a strong enough character to keep me in order !
14 We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world .
15 Roxburgh said : ‘ One of the staff will be at the game with a portable ‘ phone to keep me in touch .
16 Traditionally , the ribbon weave was left loose , but it 's easier to use interfacing to keep it in place .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 I 'd just get myself a fine eejit of a man to keep me in barley sugar all day . ’
22 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 ) .
23 More strictly , this effort is simply that essence itself which precisely is its effort to keep itself in existence in its own distinctive way .
24 They need a fear of heavenly retribution to keep them in order .
25 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 .
26 He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments .
27 She had not yet learned how greatly Brian exaggerated his financial problems in order to keep her in line .
28 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 .
29 If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job .
30 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 ] .
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