Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | you certainly do need to keep them for a while . |
| 5 | Larger seedlings will block out the light from smaller ones , so try to keep them in a row at the back . |
| 6 | To keep me on a string ? |
| 7 | ‘ How long are you going to keep me at a distance ? ’ he rasped . |
| 8 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 9 | I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd love to keep him as a pet . ’ |
| 11 | I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married . ’ |
| 12 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 13 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 14 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 15 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 16 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 17 | And then , as though determined to keep her in a state of confusion , fitzAlan startled her again . |
| 18 | A woman who was in danger of losing her home after she mortgaged it as security for her husband 's business debts , has won the right to keep it following a victory in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more . |
| 20 | I could have left the background editor open and used embedding to place the background , but it 's better to keep it as a file . |
| 21 | Thank You'-You are about to deflate the small plastic paddling pool in the garden in which no infant has paddled for a month until you realise that it is now full of strange vegetation and even stranger swimming insects and you decide to keep it as a nature reserve . |
| 22 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 23 | I was n't going to answer him back , even with ‘ He wanted to bring that lizard back — was he going to keep it for a pet ? ’ — not if he was going to be like that . |
| 24 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 25 | And he 'll use that to keep us at a distance . |
| 26 | There is indeed quite an amount of contemporary music which seems designed to keep us in a state of perpetual shock . |