Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Buttermere neighbour and old wrestling foe would be given a free mug of beer as his first drink and throughout the day Joseph would ask a little — often useless — favour here , another there in order to keep them within his ken : so that they kept their eyes , he would say to himself , on the signals coming from the flagship . |
| 2 | They still do , but I 've learnt now to keep them in my lap so that the sweat coming off the hands soaks into the trousers . |
| 3 | But when you do achieve it , you will find that you can then use aerobic walking as part of an ongoing maintenance programme to keep you at your goal weight . |
| 4 | I 'm paid to keep you in your place . |
| 5 | " You , " said Grace , mock-severely ( her heart was fluttering quite uncomfortably and she could feel a most immature desire to blush and simper rising within her ) , " are a naughty boy , and I shall have to keep you in your place , I can see that . " |
| 6 | She obviously knows you are not keen , which is why she uses blandishments of one kind or another to keep you by her side . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want your sister running after Garry — she does n't appear to have much money , so it seemed best to keep her under my eye . ’ |
| 8 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 9 | That and Nils , to keep her on her guard . |
| 10 | Frankie went reluctantly , straining his neck in order to keep her in his sight . |
| 11 | So it is very important to know how to manage it , that is , how to keep it under your control instead of it getting on top of you . |
| 12 | ‘ Some chap or other told me once , ’ Artemis 's father suddenly said , ‘ that somebody or other discovered America before Columbus or whoever it was who did , but decided it was best to keep it under his hat . ’ |
| 13 | I suppose you want to keep it for your wedding night ? ’ |
| 14 | To keep it in its place so all the engineers knows what they 're doing . |
| 15 | so it 's to keep it in your mind , erm . |
| 16 | Again , he bowed his head to the child , and when she 'd run off , he tapped again on the wall , and when the boy from the cafe appeared , he handed him the bird and asked him to keep it in his cellar for coolness until he returned from Riba on the train that evening , after he had collected the rent . |
| 17 | That is possible actually , that he would want to keep it from his neighbourhood . |
| 18 | The new season has brought us a new county and a few new rules to keep us on our guard . |