Example sentences of "[vb past] keep [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The sellers gave the buyers a delivery note to enable them to collect the spirit from X. However , the buyers chose to keep it at X 's and did not come to remove it for some months by which time it had deteriorated . |
| 4 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 7 | Mrs Sweet had kept him at it some time . |
| 8 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 9 | Ezpeleta and the local administration followed events and there is no reason to suppose that judges and municipal officials would have abandoned their ambiguous collaborationism had not St. Cyr , the French commander , later forced on them an oath of loyalty to Joseph — repugnant to the very legalism which , combined with inertia and pay , had kept them at their posts . |
| 10 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |