Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 2 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 3 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 4 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’ |
| 7 | To keep them off the ground ? |
| 8 | Those that had children struggled desperately to keep them within the state school system and also to see the frequent failures of others to succeed in this as being somehow a rather nasty disease , with compassion and sorrow the appropriate response , rather than the fierce bell-like anger they would all have produced reflexively only ten years before . |
| 9 | On the supply side both the quantity and quality of designers emerging from design courses may be that good designers are not receiving the recognition in terms of pay , conditions , status etc , required to keep them in the field and/or in the UK . |
| 10 | It has been argued that catholic schools do not do the job for which they were set up , that is educate Roman catholics sufficiently to keep them in the church . |
| 11 | This time , because your subjects are not static objects but people , you can move the camera as necessary to keep them in the centre of the frame — but stay with the subject , do n't pan part-way through to show something else . |
| 12 | By now the champagne was flowing … all United need now is a new owner willing to keep them in the style to which they 'd like to become accustomed . |
| 13 | If residents are settled then local authorities will do their best to keep them in the home of their choice he says . |
| 14 | David Mellor , Secretary of State for the new Department of National Heritage , has rejected the listing of key works of art in order to keep them in the country . |
| 15 | Tying to supports and some pruning will be needed by the climbers , to keep them in the space provided , and occasional spraying for the odd pest might be necessary . |
| 16 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 17 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 18 | It hardly seemed fair to keep them in the cage she had made out of an old claret case she had dragged up from the cellar . |
| 19 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 20 | They had needed the eccentric goalkeeping of Grobbelaar to keep them in the match up to the 111th minute , when Anderton suddenly revealed why so many scouts have been beating a path to Fratton Park . |
| 21 | ‘ Spatz says he 's going to keep me off the Project . |
| 22 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 23 | Successes , failures , blags and scams on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme — purpose-built to keep you off the dole and in your place |
| 24 | ‘ You 've got enough money to keep you for the rest of your life . |
| 25 | Just a poor schoolmaster who ca n't afford to keep you in the style to which you 've never been accustomed |
| 26 | And then they used to keep you in the Winter more or less and the visitors making up So it was s a steady trade all round . |
| 27 | Not only is the audience told what has just happened , it is told what is going to happen , just to keep you in the picture . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to keep you in the dark . |
| 29 | LABOUR & LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WANT TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT : |
| 30 | ‘ I admit that the family wanted to keep you in the dark . |