Example sentences of "that keep [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 2 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 3 | Perhaps they feel it is a way of getting back at the system that keeps them in the poverty gap . |
| 4 | Even if I did n't have a job that keeps me at the other end of the country for most of the year , this sort of place could n't provide a living . |
| 5 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 6 | It 's the news that keeps you on the move . |
| 7 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 8 | A new bank account that keeps you in touch and in the know . |
| 9 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 10 | Is it the fear of wearing in that stout new pair of shoes that keeps us in our old battered brogues ? |
| 11 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 12 | And I suppose developing the muscles that keep you from dropping over it 's pro ca n't be , ca n't be a bad thing . |
| 13 | providing tension to the girders ( bones ) and cables ( tendons ) that keep us from crumpling to the ground at any instant . |
| 14 | Severed as I was from Father and from Helmut , living in a foreign country , was it the fear of further severance that kept me in this unequal concurrence ? |
| 15 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 16 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 17 | When she was released she had gained some weight , but it was fear of rehospitalisation rather than a true recovery that kept her from losing all the weight again . |
| 18 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 19 | It 's gravity that kept you in orbit you and the Shuttle . |