keep hands off something
keep one's hands off something
take one's hands off something

Just why China has kept hands off is a matter of speculation.

Anyhow, until we find something out about it, best keep hands off."

It was hard for a doll-house lover to keep hands off.

Just to keep hands off, and let them pay the ransom and get the boy back.

"We're really trying to keep hands off," he said, stressing that any national standards would be voluntary.

The President basically wants the Government to keep hands off and let the marketplace run the economy.

"The trustees have been scrupulous in keeping hands off," he said.

She was to put a note on it instructing everybody to keep hands off. "

"I was concerned you'd want to keep hands off.

Telling school administrators to keep hands off completely is educationally hard to defend.

Now, he had been ordered to keep hands off - so far as gambling and lesser offenses were concerned.

Can I afford to keep hands off while two unknown individuals take the law into their own grasp?"

Though the local ducks often sneak over for a nibble on the plants, the public is supposed to keep hands off.

"Maybe The Shadow is keeping hands off him on that account.

This does not mean keeping hands off, he said, but rather creating what he calls a "supportive environment."

I made sure he kept hands off Beverly and refocussed his energies on you."

"Two or three years -if you can make all the paper pushers keep hands off.

This was no trick; Prior saw it come erect while the incubus kept hands off.

If you keep hands off, I shall make you a present of one hundred thousand dollars."

Chastened, most guests sat down and kept hands off the matzoh until the proper moment in the service.

Again, the courts over many years kept hands off the issue of legislative districting.

"The Protocol requires us to keep hands off.

At least, Dave could keep hands off.

It certainly seemed to some that police officers were keeping hands off, perhaps a policy meant to avoid provoking an incident at an ethnic event.

Why did Ajax and Hercules think they had to tell me to keep hands off you?"