Example sentences of "keep them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technologically and economically it requires more explaining than is now possible , not least because of the loss or destruction or records , to say nothing of not keeping them at all . |
| 2 | Keeping them at arms length guarantees that they will be lukewarm or confused in their support and their potential as marketers of the school will lie untapped . |
| 3 | Wooing first John and then Richard , Philip succeeded in keeping them at each other 's throats , or at Henry 's coat-tails , for several more years . |
| 4 | Or do you not see any point in keeping them at all ? is the number to dial . |
| 5 | I have brought them with me but I ca n't just keep them at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If you want to keep turtles happy , do n't keep them at all . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't keep them at home forever , you know . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If it came to it you could keep them at the Chestnuts over the road . |
| 14 | If , however , mutations affect both juvenile and adult survival equally , selection against their early effects keeps them at low frequency , and prevents the collapse of late survival . |
| 15 | what keeps them at it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To keep them at bay , I engaged Alison in close conversation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Conservatives voted to keep them at 10p , but were defeated . |
| 24 | They lit smoky fires at night to keep them at bay , but were soon itching with bites . |
| 25 | She saw his hands curl into white-knuckled fists and knew he was fighting to keep them at his sides . |
| 26 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 27 | Maybe Gloucester just do n't have the spending power to keep them at Kingsholm . |
| 28 | The aim , to keep them at the top of the sport . |
| 29 | The intention being to keep them at Georgia Griffiths house … even though she made no real profit from the deal . |
| 30 | The latest phase obliges vehicles delivering a wide range of food products to keep them at a temperature of no more than 8C . |