Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 31 | The 38-year-old player-manager has accepted a deal that will keep him at Hillsborough for the next three-and-a-half years . |
| 32 | Paul is hyperactive — we ca n't keep him at school . |
| 33 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 34 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | And also : According to local rag , Wilko has denied he will be signing a contract next week that will keep him at the club until 1999 . |
| 39 | And what we could do is keep him at Saint Christopher 's if we can afford to send him privately , keep him at Saint Christopher 's for a couple of years . |
| 40 | Place the fish in an aquarium with just enough depth of water for it so swim in and increase the temperature to 5–6°C above what you would normally keep it at . |
| 41 | You can keep it at home with other important papers , or give it to your executor , your professional adviser , or your bank to look after . |
| 42 | Systemic application and Bordeaux mixture in the dormant period should keep it at bay . |
| 43 | ‘ We have a good working relationship ; let's just keep it at that , shall we ? |
| 44 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 45 | Look at that place in Southampton , can do me a disc drive for two hundred quid or whatever it was , I do n't know why but I ca n't remember the price , but let's keep it at two hundred pound , And he phoned them up and said oh your price is very good on that one . |
| 46 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 49 | what keeps them at it . |
| 50 | No ulterior motive lurks behind it , but it keeps you at a distance . |
| 51 | If you are lucky , you may even see Nancy Blackett at anchor among the little yachts and ancient barges and houseboats , although her present owner , Michael Rines , usually keeps her at Ipswich . |
| 52 | Undertakers ' men and grave-diggers had to be copiously supplied with liquor to keep them at work , and this added to the disorder and indecency . |
| 53 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 54 | Ewshot fought back in the second half and Murphy , despite an injury to his nose , covered acres of ground in both attack and defence to keep them at bay . |
| 55 | To keep them at bay , I engaged Alison in close conversation . |
| 56 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 57 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 58 | When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged . |
| 59 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 60 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |