Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Managers found it impossible to maintain discipline : if a girl found a man to keep her for a while , she would ‘ scarper ’ ( disappear ) . |
| 4 | Yeah , I thought you 'd only bought it to keep it for a year or two |
| 5 | 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 . |