Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The use of conventional solders to attach minute granules of gold presented great difficulties to the goldsmith who had to keep them in position during soldering and avoid flooding the delicate work with solder . |
| 2 | Inflation called for an uplift in many maximum fines , with a power being conferred upon the Home Secretary to adjust financial limits in the future by order , having first obtained the approval of both Houses of Parliament , so as to keep them in step with subsequent changes in the value of money . |
| 3 | To keep them in tutelage to the CNAA was both humiliating and unfair . |
| 4 | Presumably when the ( outside ? ) directors of the company meet they will discuss the earnings of the top managerial staff , and attempt to keep them in line with the manager 's worth ( marginal product ) to the company . |
| 5 | Elections , strikes , riots , pressure group lobbying , and decisions by law courts continuously serve to adjust state policies to keep them in touch with movements and realignments of multiple class fractions and strata . |
| 6 | Peers may also miss today 's Competition game against Mochdre , but the skills of Darren Peters and all-rounder Kevin Owen could still earn them the points needed to keep them in touch with the pacemakers . |
| 7 | It helps to refine the vision , to keep me in touch with the eventual need to ‘ realize ’ any ideals , to sort the conceivable from the fantastic , and to have some interesting conversations . |
| 8 | I 'm hoping that this might lead to an improvement but I still please ask you all to keep me in touch with where things are going wrong so that they can be put right . |
| 9 | P.P.S. Your spring edition of our customer magazine is enclosed to keep you in touch with all the latest developments at Radio Rentals . |
| 10 | We will send you a magazine every quarter to keep you in touch with the latest travel news and issues around the world . |
| 11 | Here you are Stacey come on sit up come on oh managed to keep him in bed with you all night , here are |
| 12 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 13 | He had made her promise to keep him in touch with developments . |
| 14 | With the advantage of hindsight , we can take stock of the position at this point , but at the time the Colonel had only runners to keep him in touch with his headquarters and forward Troops , whose wirelesses had been knocked out . |
| 15 | The president thanked him and told him to keep him in touch with any further developments . |
| 16 | The discussion customarily takes place in the early evening in the Home Secretary 's room at the Commons , and is intended to keep him in touch with backbench opinion . |
| 17 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 18 | Soon , though , she drops her fancy prose and concentrates on the relationship , almost sexual in its intensity , between Mr Castro and enough Cubans to keep him in power without the brutal repression that most Caribbean dictators go in for . |
| 19 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 20 | On four Thursday evenings during the winter she could be seen , dressed in spotty black and glittering with rhinestones , sawing happily away on her violin through four public concerts , under the baton of Mr Dixon , the elderly English master from Tollemarche public school , who tried gamely to keep the rest of the orchestra in time with her , since he had long ago given up trying to keep her in time with the orchestra . |
| 21 | The Conti family held on to Sora after the election of Innocent 's successor , Honorius III , who wished to retain their loyalty and allowed them to keep it in return for payment , but lost the territory back to the Regno after a successful campaign by Frederick II in 1221 . |
| 22 | The Nepalese rupee was devalued against the US dollar by 20.96 per cent in two moves on July 2 and 3 in order to keep it in line with the recently devalued India rupee [ see p. 38334 ] . |
| 23 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 24 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |