Example sentences of "keep [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have brought them with me but I ca n't just keep them at home . |
| 2 | He hums and haws for a bit then he says he 'll put them in his car and ask if I can keep them at Combe Court . |
| 3 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 4 | It 's good practice to use three balls in rotation in cold weather , one being in play on any one hole , and the two others remaining in your pocket where your body heat can keep them at a reasonable temperature . |
| 5 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 6 | The paupers continued under the care of the churchwardens and overseers of the parishes until the House had been built , but then the directors had powers to apprehend vagrants , single pregnant women , and other malefactors , to admit them , and to set and keep them at work — but only for a maximum of six months . |
| 7 | ‘ You ca n't keep them at home forever , you know . |
| 8 | Quite simply , such an additional demand for the currencies concerned would help keep them at a higher level , with a consequent reduction in their export surpluses . |
| 9 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 10 | This is a professional program that will keep you at your PC for hours . |
| 11 | And it is Britain she thanks for the startling transformation and thinks will keep her at the top . |
| 12 | Andy Platt , England 's latest recruit , has agreed a new deal with Aston Villa which will keep him at the club until 1994 . |
| 13 | JOHN MORRIS , Derbyshire 's 28-year-old vice-captain , has ended speculation about his cricketing future by signing a two-year extension to his contract which will keep him at the Recreation Ground until 1996 . |
| 14 | The 38-year-old player-manager has accepted a deal that will keep him at Hillsborough for the next three-and-a-half years . |
| 15 | Paul is hyperactive — we ca n't keep him at school . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Systemic application and Bordeaux mixture in the dormant period should keep it at bay . |
| 26 | ‘ We have a good working relationship ; let's just keep it at that , shall we ? |
| 27 | 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 ? |
| 28 | 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 . |