Example sentences of "[noun sg] to keep them [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she added with an air of responsibility , ‘ It 's my job to keep them in order . |
| 2 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | They need a fear of heavenly retribution to keep them in order . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ In fact , children do not need systems of punishment and reward to keep them in line , but they do need discipline . |