Example sentences of "keep him at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 2 | I 'm not naive , I know others will make more be back with more bids because he 's such a top -class goal scorer , ’ says the manager , who has just signed a contract keeping him at Hillsborough for the same time as Hirst . |
| 3 | Andy Platt , England 's latest recruit , has agreed a new deal with Aston Villa which will keep him at the club until 1994 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 38-year-old player-manager has accepted a deal that will keep him at Hillsborough for the next three-and-a-half years . |
| 6 | Paul is hyperactive — we ca n't keep him at school . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | DeVore laughed , knowing the drug would last for hours yet — would keep him at this peak until he had done with her . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What she needed was a weapon of some sort , something that would keep him at a distance should the need arise . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 15 | The Camel Benetton Ford driver was outraged at the tactics used by Senna to keep him at bay for several laps . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A chassis and body was built from the pilot 's hip out ( to keep him at one with his machine ) . |
| 21 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 22 | He maintained that Philip was trying to keep him at war in Scotland ‘ so that he might not pursue his rights elsewhere ’ . |
| 23 | I advise you to keep him at a distance until you are married . ’ |
| 24 | Michael holds Howard by the upper arms , to take in his corporeal presence through his finger-tips , and to keep him at the right distance for gazing at in astonishment . |
| 25 | Sliding into the warmth he had just left , inhaling the scent of him on the pillows , surrounded by his clothes , books and possessions , she could feel her resolve to keep him at arm 's length ebbing relentlessly away . |
| 26 | She made for an armchair , knowing it would be wise to keep him at a distance , but she did n't reach it . |
| 27 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 28 | No wonder she 'd struggled so hard against it , doing all in her power to keep him at a distance . |
| 29 | Little wonder he saw some fresh sport in the pursuit of someone like Shannon , who was single-mindedly determined to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 30 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |