Example sentences of "[v-ing] to keep [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long are you going to keep me at a distance ? ’ he rasped . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She saw his hands curl into white-knuckled fists and knew he was fighting to keep them at his sides . |
| 4 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 5 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |
| 6 | This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level . |