Example sentences of "[noun pl] to keep [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police and motoring organisations urged drivers to keep their speed down and take extra care as freezing fog gripped the country . |
| 2 | We need words to keep us human . |
| 3 | Heroism presented itself to her still as sacrifice ; but she turned her mind in pity to the heroines who had suffered atrocious torments to keep their bud for the eternal bridegroom ; surely , and the paradox hit her humour with satisfying logic , the most excellent act of selflessness for a virgin was to surrender up her state ? |
| 4 | But the arrival of punk and the flood of self-produced records led to the setting up of new distribution networks which enabled the new labels to keep their distance from the bigger companies . |
| 5 | Edmund Booth of Ove Arup likens the physics to ‘ standing in a railway carriage and flexing your legs to keep your balance ’ . |
| 6 | Again , if the company is listed , it will be subject to additional duties to keep its security holders and , indeed the public , informed of all major developments and if it does not The Exchange may publish the information . |
| 7 | German interest rates are coming down , which will relieve pressure on other countries to keep their interest rates high . |
| 8 | In contrast European nations have allowed contracting companies to keep their R&D findings secret from other companies ; with this kind of practice occurring across a dozen nations , European defence R&D is often wasted as well as fragmented . |
| 9 | My father did give money to the Arabs to keep his head . ’ |
| 10 | Now that a reaction is setting in , Mr Gorbachev is leaning back towards the conservatives to keep his balance . |
| 11 | In an effort to prevent this kind of accident ( which is almost always fatal for the tow pilot ) , the emphasis has been for pilots to keep their glider very low just after leaving the ground . |
| 12 | Fortunately Schur promises to keep his promise . |
| 13 | Things to keep her level . |
| 14 | I 'm at the front of the hunt and I 've got lots of other things to keep my eye on . ’ |
| 15 | With great discretion , Dyson yawned , straining his muscles to keep his mouth shut at the same time . |
| 16 | The player has denied demanding two thousand pounds to keep his mouth shut . |
| 17 | I learnt to make pots to keep my food in . |
| 18 | A good cut will remove the need for lots of products to keep your hair in shape . |
| 19 | Michael Foot had put together a series of policies to keep his party together . |
| 20 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 21 | Home , with Charmaine and her hurt , resentful eyes , her domestic conversation , her irritating attempts to keep their marriage alive . |
| 22 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 23 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 24 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 25 | It is very important for chemical-sensitive patients to keep their problem in perspective , and not get unduly paranoid about the world around them . |
| 26 | One of the best ways to keep your eyeshadow in place — even after a dip in the pool — is to use waterproof colours . |
| 27 | He did n't mind telling her in no uncertain terms to keep her distance from him , not that she had any inclination to do anything else , but obviously felt no compulsion to obey those rules when applied to himself . |
| 28 | Ultimately the answer to heavy reservation pressure is for selectors to keep their nerve , and refuse to over-provide in a way which will prejudice other elements of the stock used by larger sections of the community . |
| 29 | So now I have just the toys to keep me company . |
| 30 | He went to exceedingly great lengths to keep his name out of the public eye , but , as with Lawrence , an extreme desire for secrecy and public contempt for ambition were accompanied by a morbid fascination with the power of the will . |