Example sentences of "to keep it [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative Party 's new chairman , Chris Patten , has told Marxism Today of his interest in the German idea of a ‘ social market ’ , which believes it is possible to unleash capitalism 's efficiency but also to keep it under the supervising eye of society : to combine the engine of individualism and a communal conscience . |
| 2 | We try to keep it under the surface but it 's definitely become much more of a problem . |
| 3 | Cos it 's not as if we have to keep it for the weekend , I can do it during the week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's how I plan to keep it at the moment . |
| 8 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 9 | Plant in late spring , and clip in mid-spring if required to be grown formally as edging , or to keep it within the space available . |
| 10 | In fact I 'd carefully scripted the whole thing , grading the language to keep it within the students ' capabilities . |
| 11 | It was a good move to keep it in the theatre . " |
| 12 | For younger children , play the same game but this time they can hit the ball with their hands to keep it in the air . |
| 13 | When they give you it , they have to watch you swallow it , but I used to keep it in the back of my throat and save it up . |
| 14 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you do n't think I 'm going to keep it in the fridge , do you ? ’ |
| 16 | Greenpeace was accused of scientific sloppiness , so it appointed a director of science and two people to work with him , a recognition in its way that zipping over the waves in pursuit of whalers was not enough to keep it in the forefront in these intellectually demanding days of climate change . |
| 17 | Ireland is presented as a place whose feminine nature makes the country require a more powerful masculine presence to keep it from the savagery of the giant who is unmistakably a Roman Catholic monster . |
| 18 | He did n't pull his weight , but knew how to keep it from the consultants . |