Example sentences of "to keep him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon it was raining hard enough , Stephen noted dismally , to keep him off the moor for the evening . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd love to keep him as a pet . ’ |
| 3 | I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married . ’ |
| 4 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 5 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 6 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 7 | Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won . |
| 8 | ‘ It is number 52 , is n't it ? ’ she asked , just to keep him at the end of the line . |
| 9 | On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground . |
| 10 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've had a couple of stormy sessions with the old rascal trying to keep him on the beam . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The story is that there 's an irresponsible , bored lunatic in Deptford , and I ought to keep him in a cage until I need him . ’ |
| 14 | What you must do is tell Irina to keep him in the clinic till I can come . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | " 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They wo n't continue to keep him in the Tower . |