Example sentences of "keeping [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and when she went over she says er school being off , she heard er David saying something about well nobody 's keeping me from my ironing . |
| 3 | The trial judge directed the jury if at the time he collected the coins the defendant had formed the dishonest intention of keeping them for himself he was guilty of theft . |
| 4 | Some fell down , forgotten by those who had been keeping them on their feet . |
| 5 | And , keeping them on their toes … the doctors who walk eighteen miles a day . |
| 6 | And it 's the same idea in Confirmation that the gifts which you are given are not given just for yourself , they 're given to be used , and there 's no point in keeping them to yourself , you know . |
| 7 | Candida was all very well , but since returning to Portugal she had found her relations and was settling happily into her new life , and Sara was loth to share any secrets with her because she knew that she was incapable of keeping them to herself . |
| 8 | This world of change and conflict , however , is not just a chaos but is governed throughout time by a principle of order or balance of opposites , keeping them within their due bounds . |
| 9 | Experienced social workers were given a case manager role for a small case load of such elderly people , with the task of keeping them in their own homes on a budget of two-thirds the cost of residential care in a local authority home . |
| 10 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 11 | We 're not worried , we 're not actually keeping you to anything that 's down on the gift voucher . |
| 12 | ‘ Are n't I keeping you from something ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'm keeping you from your duties . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ That is my fault , keeping you from your food . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm keeping you from your beauty sleep . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't start that again , Ruth , or I 'll manually wrench your other ankle after I 've spanked your backside for suggesting that I am keeping you from your work . |
| 17 | That 's why I 'm keeping her with me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’ |
| 19 | If a male , for example , is constantly harassing his mate , keeping her in her cave or in a corner of the tank , often with serious damage being inflicted , this shows that he is ready to breed but she is not . |
| 20 | Moreover , by simply keeping her in their power they were holding all their options open and preventing Philip from marrying her to someone else and so forging a new alliance . |
| 21 | I needed to fly dead into wind approaching the pilot , but keeping him on my right , and I 'd drop the dinghy slightly upwind of him so it would blow downwind to him . |
| 22 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
| 23 | Convinced that in keeping him with her , she was merely indulging her maternal regard for him , Richard was playing his last card . |
| 24 | She would lose Patrick soon , she suddenly thought — all that was keeping him with her now was because she kept a very tight control of the purse strings : he had no money of his own . |
| 25 | If letting him make love to her was the price for keeping him with her all night she would pay it gladly . |
| 26 | ‘ No good keeping 'em for you when we thought you were dead . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I have , I 'm keeping it to myself . ’ |
| 28 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 29 | You , you know how I feel , I mean er Rob does a lot of good work but he keeps it all to himself and we 've got ta be bigger than keeping it to ourselves , it 's everybody 's responsibility vocational education from right down from year seven right the way across the board , they 've got ta |
| 30 | But the shopman had already bowed as though keeping it for her was all any human being could ask . |