Example sentences of "keep they [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll press them and keep them between the pages of a book , to remind me of you . ’
2 Women and children must be protected from sex offenders and that means imposing heavy prison sentences which do not merely recognise the degree of hurt the offenders have inflicted , but which keep them off Britain 's streets .
3 Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers .
4 Keep them off the boats ! ’ cried the doctor .
5 Keep them off me , boy !
6 For Jesu 's sake , keep them off me ! ’
7 ah look after your children , keep them off the streets blah , blah , blah
8 They simply keep them as hostages .
9 I was just reaching out to get the bottle — I keep them on that sideboard just behind me chair — when I heard this noise … . ’
10 Keep your top people and keep them on top form
11 if you record your check lists keep them on separate tapes and correctly labelled , so that you can easily find what you want .
12 Together , these threats are supposed to discipline managers and keep them on their toes .
13 Keep them on the file from the beginning .
14 and just keep them on meagre wages and then they 'd have to subsidize themselves or
15 You are advised to detach these pages and keep them with your travel documents .
16 ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow .
17 She said , keep them for my grave .
18 But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if
19 Just keep them for the telly then .
20 Keep them for school .
21 To ripen melons , keep them at room temperature for a few days , when ripe store in the fridge and eat as soon as possible .
22 If you are over the limit and have goods to declare , keep them at the top of your luggage or in a separate parcel .
23 Keep them at bay with scrupulous personal hygiene .
24 They 're being pumped around the body even faster so therefore that 's going to take hold of the person faster , so you keep them at rest , into recovery position if possible and get help , do n't forget to er collect any evidence of what the poison is , it must go with the casualty .
25 When you are not using your hands in this manner , keep them at your sides .
26 By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while .
27 It became increasingly difficult to pay insurance and assistance benefits and at the same time keep them below the level of wages .
28 Keep them to objective statements and re-remind them not to speculate on subjective reasons like ‘ emotional rejection ’ , ‘ lack of love ’ , etc .
29 But one tried to put a good face on it and keep them to oneself .
30 But I think this is , I think that I know it w it was the arguments that went on when we were on about going dividend stamps was very interesting , I quite enjoyed them and you can you know , definitely what came out was that erm it was a bad thing because erm people , er maybe it 's good if these stamps are going to the Co-op er going to the hospitals I 'm all for it , but I 'm afraid mine I keep them to for myself and erm er I get so few these days now my Co-op 's gone but erm you know usually I go and get a bag of er , box of teabags with mine , you know and er so I use my stamps now erm .
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