Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 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 .
2 you certainly do need to keep them for a while .
3 ‘ You 've got enough money to keep you for the rest of your life .
4 Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) .
5 Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two
6 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 .
7 Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week .
8 One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France .
9 It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby .
  Next page