Example sentences of "keep him on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not keeping him on the hop , but I am making a joke of things . |
| 2 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 3 | And to me he added , " That 'll keep him on the run . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 7 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 8 | Keep him on the move until he 's dried off — if necessary , lunge him . |
| 9 | It 's your job to evaluate the stuff and keep him on the ball . |
| 10 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 11 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 12 | When the fans were screaming for him to play Clive Allen , Reid kept him on the bench . |
| 13 | However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard . |
| 14 | He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat . |
| 15 | Since joining BP as a petroleum engineer in 1974 , his career has kept him on the move . |
| 16 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |