Example sentences of "be keep [pers pn] at " in BNC.

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1 I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ?
2 ‘ That 's why I 'm keeping her at my place for the moment . ’
3 The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal .
4 Then within the team 's , in the Policy Team there were three Policy Development Officer 's , in the Neighbourhood Development Team there were two Development Officer 's and in the Community Development Team there are one , two , there are well there are normally six officer 's that you could I that you could identify , but there are other people that relate to them , but then it gets a bit complicated so were keep it at that .
5 It is as if an invisible force field is keeping us at arms length .
6 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 .
7 She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance .
8 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 .
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