Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If residents are settled then local authorities will do their best to keep them in the home of their choice he says . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Do you think though , perhaps you could have done more to keep them in the Party ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Just a poor schoolmaster who ca n't afford to keep you in the style to which you 've never been accustomed |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I had to keep you in the dark . |
| 18 | LABOUR & LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WANT TO KEEP YOU IN THE DARK ABOUT : |
| 19 | ‘ I admit that the family wanted to keep you in the dark . |
| 20 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 21 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 22 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 23 | He would grab a completed section of the overall plan from Mark 's private secretary just as soon as she had typed it , and dash off to his own office down the corridor to study it carefully many times over , before taking it along to Muldoon to keep him in the picture . |
| 24 | He is refreshingly straightforward and forthright , embarrassing Labour 's image makers who attempted to keep him in the background as much as possible during the election campaign . |
| 25 | She wondered whether , if Mrs Khalid were in love with her son 's friend Sharif , would she do as Rhoda had done , try to marry off her daughter to Sharif just to keep him in the family ? |
| 26 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 27 | Mains was recalled for the solitary Test against Tom Grace 's Irishmen at Athletic Park , in which the All Blacks gained an undistinguished win , but Mains got a penalty goal and enough credit to keep him in the team for the great tour — South Africa , 1978 . |
| 28 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |
| 29 | Madonna has often talked of her Ten Year Plan , a route to megastardom designed to keep her in the manner to which she has quickly become accustomed for years to come too . |
| 30 | It was n't only because she did n't want to trail damage amongst those who 'd helped her ; partly it was that calculating element in her mind again , that perpetual level of awareness that was tuned to seek out and recognise any opportunity that she could take to keep her in the game and moving . |