Example sentences of "kept [pers pn] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It kept you on your toes . |
| 2 | McAllister really did think that she was going to faint this time , not through shock or disgust , but sheer physical exhaustion , except that the will which her family deplored kept her on her feet . |
| 3 | But something in the way Chambers kept glancing sidelong at her kept her on her guard . |
| 4 | No I kept it on its own . |
| 5 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 6 | In the end he looked back on Dulles as ‘ a worthy and interesting adversary — he always kept us on our toes ’ . |
| 7 | JB : Just working alongside these people , and seeing them being involved in whatever it was they were doing was stimulating in a strange sort of way , and kept us on our toes . |