Example sentences of "to keep [pron] at " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To keep them at bay , I engaged Alison in close conversation . |
| 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 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 9 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 10 | She saw his hands curl into white-knuckled fists and knew he was fighting to keep them at his sides . |
| 11 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 12 | Maybe Gloucester just do n't have the spending power to keep them at Kingsholm . |
| 13 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 14 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 15 | The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 're absolutely desperate to keep me at arm 's length . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It was n't because you believed me to be unavailable , to keep me at bay , by any chance ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ How long are you going to keep me at a distance ? ’ he rasped . |
| 20 | But when you do achieve it , you will find that you can then use aerobic walking as part of an ongoing maintenance programme to keep you at your goal weight . |
| 21 | It is usual to keep one at least one specially cooled aquarium with supplementary tanks without temperature regulation . |
| 22 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 23 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 27 | Clough will consider it a much needed morale booster if he can get Keane 's signature on the new deal , even though the battle to keep him at the City Ground is far from being won . |
| 28 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 29 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 30 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |