Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 2 | The keeping of livestock includes keeping them for the production of food , skins or other agricultural purposes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He says that that it 's a good way of introducing youngsters to trials riding , as well as keeping them off the streets . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's keeping you on the bike . |
| 8 | Around and About : keeping you in the know |
| 9 | Keeping you in the news |
| 10 | The Doc 's patented micro-organisms were beavering away inside , keeping her at the peak of perfection . |
| 11 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 12 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 13 | Some deep throbbing vibration seemed to be keeping him in the air , and his limbs ached . |
| 14 | I wonder if they 're keeping him in the morgue , by the way ? |
| 15 | Fat chance , thought Leonora , unable to resist keeping him in the dark about whether Elise was going with her . |
| 16 | Water management is the major part of fishkeeping — but I do have this fantasy about keeping it to the minimum and this partly explains the filtration system I am suggesting , based on a fairly standard undergravel . |
| 17 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 18 | ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’ |
| 19 | We we 're keeping it under the first weight bracket er for for cost reasons . |
| 20 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 21 | 2 Straighten left leg out behind you , keeping it off the floor . |
| 22 | On the Ukrainian tour , Houghton thought the band were too fervid about keeping it in the family . |
| 23 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |
| 24 | But the PRO is charged with keeping it in the public eye . |
| 25 | How about just keeping it in the bag ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ The guys wo n't keep me on the team . |
| 28 | Do n't keep me in the house . |
| 29 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 30 | 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 . |