Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 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 | It 's keeping you on the bike . |
| 3 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 4 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The guys wo n't keep me on the team . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Godparents , these state that you should keep them on the straight and narrow |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I will keep her on the same round but I will keep an eye on her and may switch the rounds . |
| 12 | And to me he added , " That 'll keep him on the run . " |
| 13 | ‘ I think the banks will keep it on the lane and I suppose it 'll just roll to a halt eventually . ’ |
| 14 | and I can keep it on the wall in n it ? |
| 15 | It also keeps me on the right track as well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It 's the news that keeps you on the move . |
| 19 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’ |
| 23 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 24 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 28 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 29 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 30 | He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out ! |