Example sentences of "had keep [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But perhaps , by telling him of it she might break through the shell of quiet self-sufficiency and recollection that had kept her at bay since his return from Student Cross . |
| 3 | Mrs Sweet had kept him at it some time . |
| 4 | Some dictators had been keen to forge triple alliances including foreign firms ; other had kept them at arms ' length . |
| 5 | Ezpeleta and the local administration followed events and there is no reason to suppose that judges and municipal officials would have abandoned their ambiguous collaborationism had not St. Cyr , the French commander , later forced on them an oath of loyalty to Joseph — repugnant to the very legalism which , combined with inertia and pay , had kept them at their posts . |
| 6 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |