Example sentences of "[noun prp] keep [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 Two goals from Wayne Biggins kept Stoke on course for the Third Division title with a 3–0 home win over Darlington .
2 She poured the antiseptic liquid into a bowl , and gently unwrapped the towel while Rafaelo kept pressure on the vein to stop the bleeding .
3 Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip .
4 We spent most of the time on the Thames and Medway keeping observations on shipping .
5 SCO KEEPS WEATHER-EYE ON INTEL P5 AS ITS INTEREST IN MIPS WANES
6 Swivelling his head left and right like a tennis spectator , Larsen kept watch on both sets of stairs and waited , his gun held ready , barrel pointing towards the ceiling .
7 LOFT 's former director , Larry Leach , is now in Britain keeping tabs on the Sizewell inquiry for the US government .
8 Ballymena will rely heavily on Davy Tweed presenting enough line-out possession for Derek McAleese to keep Instonians on their back foot — and this could help Ballymena put THEIR best foot forward .
9 Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon .
10 And I ca n't depend on Dotty keeping guard on me .
11 AN INJURY-time drop goal by Craig Chalmers kept Melrose on course for their second national league title in a row but it was a match that neither side deserved to lose and both could have won .
12 Mr Bryant sacked the clerk but Jonathan kept Matthew on and told him he would have to pay all the money back out of his wages , so much a month . ’
13 Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity .
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