Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we could choose to do if we wanted to keep them as that figure head and as a P R agency almost , we could pay them a specific salary , similar to other people who work in advertising industry |
| 2 | I suppose the reason was one of policy really — they had the youngsters hooked and they wanted to keep them in that position by not rocking the boat . |
| 3 | ‘ Is that what 's supposed to keep me in this dress ? |
| 4 | My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’ |
| 5 | Donaldson read the form through and signed it ; only his silence was needed to keep him from all liability . |
| 6 | ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger . |
| 7 | For the listener , there is nothing to keep her to this role unless she happens to have a partner whose talk is engaging ( or , of course , there may be extrinsic pressures of , for example , wanting to please teacher , which because it is always a possible element in children 's work I will not keep referring to but will take for granted ) . |
| 8 | And eventually they said well the stereotype is basically sort of like the equivalent in litho plate making really said that this was , no of course it is metal , sorry it 's not metal , it is letterpress The Guardian and it is , they make these Nyclopone plates or something and they really wanted to keep it for that reason . |
| 9 | This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level . |
| 10 | That means gravity had to pull harder on it — harder than on you — to keep it in that orbit . |
| 11 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |