Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [prep] [art] [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 ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’
3 The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C .
4 The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport .
5 He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone .
6 so I told him to keep them on the back of that door .
7 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 . ’
8 ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’
9 In Stafford , soldiers were forbidden from bring their families into the town unless they had enough funds to keep them for a quarter of a year , due to the large number of camp followers registering for charity .
10 you certainly do need to keep them for a while .
11 To keep them off the ground ?
12 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 .
13 Larger seedlings will block out the light from smaller ones , so try to keep them in a row at the back .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 If residents are settled then local authorities will do their best to keep them in the home of their choice he says .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 ‘ 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 .
23 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 .
24 Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ?
25 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 .
26 To keep me on a string ?
27 ‘ How long are you going to keep me at a distance ? ’ he rasped .
28 ‘ Spatz says he 's going to keep me off the Project .
29 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 .
30 Successes , failures , blags and scams on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme — purpose-built to keep you off the dole and in your place
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