Example sentences of "[verb] he at arm " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 2 | All she could do was keep him at arm 's length — and pray for the strength to keep on doing it till they were released from their snowy prison . |
| 3 | In reality , the relationship was a strained and sometimes comical mismatch , a 50-year-long saga of crossed purposes — with Yeats doing all the suffering and Maud forever striving to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 4 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 5 | Little wonder he saw some fresh sport in the pursuit of someone like Shannon , who was single-mindedly determined to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , her desire to keep him at arm 's length dwindling to nothing . |
| 7 | If it was true what he said , that she kept him at arm 's length , surely there could only be one reason for that ? |
| 8 | Tom Fish held him at arm 's length over his head , spun him this way and that until the sky turned sickeningly above him . |
| 9 | Benin embraced Werner then held him at arm 's length . |
| 10 | And then she abruptly pulled away and held him at arm 's length . |
| 11 | In her excitement , switching from Greek to broken English , she held him at arm 's length before kissing him soundly on both cheeks . |