Example sentences of "keep [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 2 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 3 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 4 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 5 | Late-night scheduling has been a consistent feature of lesbian and gay programming , exploiting the gay audience 's motivation to watch these programmes while keeping them on the edges of broadcasting . |
| 6 | It was started as a response to the existing state education system in place under apartheid , in which ‘ black children were educated in a way geared to keeping them as a docile , compliant labour force ’ , according to a colleague of the School . |
| 7 | It is one thing to assert that a consequence of sustained expansion of demand will be a direct increase in the expected rate of inflation by a process which efficiently circumvents the gradual error learning mechanism posited by adaptive expectations : individuals will have an incentive to search for the origins of their expectational errors and take the steps appropriate to keeping them to an absolute , unavoidable minimum . |
| 8 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 9 | The Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) aims to stabilise currencies by keeping them within an agreed band . |
| 10 | I 'm not surprised your Julidochromis have n't bred and have fallen out if you are keeping them in a community tank ! |
| 11 | I will be keeping them in a 36″ × 12″ × 15″ tank with small shoal of Serpae Tetras and a Plec . |
| 12 | Yeah good that 's a good idea but now you can start keeping them in a in a book . |
| 13 | Tottenham had to thank another youngster for keeping them in a position to fight back . |
| 14 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 15 | Severe overcrowding in the urban areas was usually cited as the reason for keeping them in the countryside , but there were probably underlying political motives . |
| 16 | Everyone is agreed that looking after patients in the community is a more expensive option than keeping them inside a hospital , where all the facilities are available under one roof . |
| 17 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 18 | She was , as well , a woman above reproach , avoiding involvement in all intrigues , keeping everyone at a distance and thus surrounded by universal esteem . |
| 19 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 20 | These past three years he had grown sullen and morose , keeping himself at a distance , always watching her , silently blaming her for Maisie 's tragic death . |
| 21 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 22 | It 's keeping you on the bike . |
| 23 | I 'm sure I 'm keeping you from a million other appointments . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That is , of course , if I 'm not keeping you from a million other engagements . ’ |
| 25 | Around and About : keeping you in the know |
| 26 | Keeping you in the news |
| 27 | The whole company ethos of keeping everything within the plant and of not talking to television or papers survived even when all seemed lost . |
| 28 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 29 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 30 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |