Example sentences of "keep it at " in BNC.

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1 Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda :
2 ‘ You 're sending it and keeping it at the same time ? ’
3 He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Systemic application and Bordeaux mixture in the dormant period should keep it at bay .
7 ‘ We have a good working relationship ; let's just keep it at that , shall we ?
8 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 ?
9 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 .
10 The decision to keep it at 23 means fewer fixtures , less money and a greater likelihood of further clubs folding .
11 But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay .
12 This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level .
13 This is very contrary to our traditional view of trying to segment and fragment the information and trying to keep it at the business specific level or trying to keep it at the corporate level .
14 This is partly because eating foods you do n't like ( and avoiding those you do ) day after day is nigh-on impossible , and partly because your personal cholesterol level is as normal and natural for you as your shoe size , so your body has various feedback mechanisms to keep it at that level .
15 ‘ That 's how I plan to keep it at the moment .
16 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 .
17 Well if you 'd like to keep it at that , that 's fine .
18 There 's no reasson to keep it at all .
19 Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home .
20 Once it 's cool , cover it and keep it at 5°C or colder , or freeze it .
21 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 .
22 Oh no I keep it at the side of my bed with the , the strip telling me
23 Keep it at Monte Samana .
24 Just keep it at that .
25 erm They do n't like them to buy copies of the school reading scheme and keep it at home and go through it book by book , that they feel is encroaching on their professionalism .
26 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 .
27 I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at .
28 Vera 's not back from lunch , so I kept it at the desk . ’
29 Therefore the possibility must be that the sender kept it at home , and that there 's more of it there .
30 The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again .
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