Example sentences of "[vb past] to keep [pers pn] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 2 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 3 | ‘ They came to keep us in parley , while you assault us . ’ |
| 4 | I found nothing else of interest but Bernice turned up a couple of old school exercise books of Billy 's and decided to keep them in remembrance . |
| 5 | He was the man who supplied the new bicycles , Raleighs , and he undertook to keep them in repair . |
| 6 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |