Example sentences of "to keep [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To keep them at bay , I engaged Alison in close conversation . |
| 4 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 8 | ‘ It was n't because you believed me to be unavailable , to keep me at bay , by any chance ? ’ |
| 9 | You 're absolutely desperate to keep me at arm 's length . ’ |
| 10 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 11 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 12 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 13 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 14 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she breathed , her desire to keep him at arm 's length dwindling to nothing . |
| 19 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 20 | She was only here because he 'd manoeuvred it ; now he seemed determined to keep her at arm 's length . |
| 21 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 22 | But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay . |