Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they 're keeping me in for observation . |
| 2 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 3 | And now I must pack up and take the road ; you 'll be keeping me company on a long night march , although I know you 're asleep in our nice warm bed … |
| 4 | What I found amazing , to the extent of keeping me occupied combating fluoridation during the past 20 years on a more-than full-time basis , was that the sales promotion experts employed to build the fluoridation bandwagon have been able for so long to lull most scientists and politicians into accepting this method of diluting and dumping waste fluorides at public expense . |
| 5 | Punch , in particular Bargepole 's column , is the only thing keeping me in England at the moment . |
| 6 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 7 | She 's literally keeping me alive . |
| 8 | But this year an even more offensive marketing ploy is keeping me away from my Christmas shopping . |
| 9 | Instead he said : ‘ I want to race Lewis to end any dispute over keeping me number two in the world rankings . |
| 10 | Once again , thanks for keeping me in touch . |
| 11 | You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him . |
| 12 | I 'm able to be in the refuge because I choose to be — nothing is keeping me here . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh he 's not keeping me . |
| 14 | He figured all the time he was talking he 'd be keeping me from smashing up his hand with the gun-butt . |
| 15 | It is already taken care of Thank you for keeping me company . ’ |
| 16 | They 're keeping me to the contract … wanting their pound o ’ flesh . |
| 17 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 18 | ABBERLEY : You 're still lying there keeping me awake . |
| 19 | All the same , if you 're just going to lie there keeping me awake , I 've got to go to sleep . |
| 20 | The heart and lungs carried on willy-nilly , keeping me going , keeping me awake . |
| 21 | The heart and lungs carried on willy-nilly , keeping me going , keeping me awake . |
| 22 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 23 | I realize that he encourages it , it 's a means of keeping me from being as discontented as I should be . |
| 24 | as if he was n't a maniac keeping me prisoner here . |
| 25 | His pleasure is keeping me prisoner . |
| 26 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 27 | It 's the least you can tell me after keeping me waiting for an hour ! ’ |
| 28 | You are doing yourself a lot of harm by keeping me here like this interrogating me about matters which are protected by the official secrets legislation . ’ |
| 29 | I would have liked to have gone to Venice , where there was a faculty of languages , or Bologna , where I could have read Economics and Commerce ; but the war was on , and the expense of keeping me in a distant town was beyond the means of my parents . |
| 30 | and yours because he has been he has been diligent in the extreme , in keeping me informed and in the way he and Bob and Norman , I 'm sorry I do n't know the rest of the team , I do n't know the other five erm |