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Example sentences of "keep [pron] on the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop .
3	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 .
4	It 's keeping you on the bike .
5	I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things .
6	You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission .
7	It is a rare book that can keep me on the ground reading when the weather is good , but that is just what this little publication did .
8	‘ The guys wo n't keep me on the team .
9	Two explorers passing through the Chilean desert in 1974 discovered the banana could help keep them on the move when they became stranded because their car had drained of oil .
10	Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow
11	From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette .
12	She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider .
13	He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds .
14	And to me he added , " That 'll keep him on the run . "
15	‘ I think the banks will keep it on the lane and I suppose it 'll just roll to a halt eventually . ’
16	and I can keep it on the wall in n it ?
17	It also keeps me on the right track as well .
18	Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow .
19	It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’
20	It 's the news that keeps you on the move .
21	The driving force that keeps you on the road best .
22	What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup .
23	In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow .
24	Her mother said to her , quite seriously , as if this was advice handed down in the family from mother to daughter since time immemorial , her mother said : ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’
25	‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’
26	so I told him to keep them on the back of that door .
27	She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow .
28	WITH COVENT Garden on the rise , West Soho , London 's Eighties mecca of zonal shopping , is looking to keep itself on the agenda .
29	That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out .
30	More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee .