Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's always a good idea to keep them on the hop . ’ |
| 4 | To keep me on a string ? |
| 5 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 8 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 9 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 10 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 11 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |