Example sentences of "at bay " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 2 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 3 | Set against these points is the maintenance problem ; softwood doors need regular decoration to keep rot at bay , and even hardwoods require regular treatment with preservative and stain to keep them in good condition . |
| 4 | But d-i-y treatment will go a long way towards keeping rot at bay , and you should be prepared to give freshly exposed cut surfaces of both cladding and battens an extra coat of preservative during installation for extra protection . |
| 5 | In the last hour of play , however , he played with great accuracy to keep the Dutch grandmaster at bay . |
| 6 | Those who design , develop and approve this marginally acceptable architecture must be delighted that its very banality keeps critics and hostile public opinion at bay . |
| 7 | At Byker , Erskine built some of the most likeable local authority housing of the 1970s behind a massive and sinuous brick wall designed to keep the roar of a proposed urban motorway at bay . |
| 8 | A man short , the Fourth Division side held their more illustrious opponents at bay with no great difficulty until midway through the first half , and the crowds had fallen into an apprehensive silence when Drinkell revived their spirits . |
| 9 | There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay . |
| 10 | It may all come down to Clark if Oakland are to be kept at bay . |
| 11 | Acts like these provide the superficial evidence for the failure , in Kursk as elsewhere , to keep Bolshevik encroachment at bay . |
| 12 | It has been argued that the Famine led to a long-term levelling process amongst the afflicted peasantry , thus keeping the ‘ kulak ’ at bay in the stricken areas . |
| 13 | By the end of 1981 , she seemed almost a Prime Minister at bay . |
| 14 | He found the bank 's routine congenial , keeping greater worries at bay . |
| 15 | He knew what he felt , but he always kept the knowledge at bay . |
| 16 | Scattered all over his territories were 738,000 Japanese ; in theory a defeated army but in most cases still armed and either potentially dangerous or the only organized force capable of keeping chaos at bay . |
| 17 | And St Margaret , her cheeks glowing with the realisation of her strength , the knowledge that she indeed held the great dragon at bay while this new young warrior prepared herself for combat , felt a moment of disappointment , anticipating a return to the boredom of heaven . |
| 18 | I cut the cheese with the Lappish knife I acquired last time out ; it has a 25-centimetre blade and can open cans , cut fire-wood and generally keep misery at bay . |
| 19 | The rule of sport by amateurs kept capitalism at bay in British sport . |
| 20 | But , although increasing your intake of fruit and vegetables has numerous advantages and benefits — both are generally low in calories and rich in Vitamin C which helps keep colds at bay — it is possible to eat too much . |
| 21 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 22 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 23 | The Hungarian minority was already complaining bitterly then of persecution — their plight widely regarded as the unfortunate flip-side of Ceausescu 's ultra-nationalism , which at least kept the Russians at bay . |
| 24 | These have been kept at bay for 40 years by the power and special pleading of the vested interests who are right now busily working out how to control the new Heritage Agency . |
| 25 | The action , brought by Australia 's third largest bank , comes at the end of a year during which Mr Bond — best known for brewing Castlemaine XXXX lager and his 1985 triumph in the America 's Cup yacht challenge — has fought a desperate battle to keep his creditors at bay . |
| 26 | Jag at bay Sweden 's Per Eklund ran out of time yesterday after gearbox and electrical problems in his Landseer . |
| 27 | That means keeping the chief local predator at bay . |
| 28 | Visa 's rule-book bristles with other conditions that keep non-banks at bay . |
| 29 | It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried . |
| 30 | The public prefers , indeed seems to insist on , the precedent set by Rocky Marciano , who quit undefeated , kept self-delusion at bay . |