Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're not beautiful in our image , then put a bucket over your head , or hide at home if you 're too fat ; we do n't want to see you . |
| 2 | They would go to one another 's flats , have supper in a bistro , go to a film , or sit at home with bowls of spaghetti , chatting and watching television . |
| 3 | But in poor families , many youngsters spend Saturdays earning money or helping at home , which prevents them attending such classes . |
| 4 | Several thousand kilometres of fish netting is lost or discarded at sea annually . |
| 5 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 6 | Several of my old shipmates from earlier years were now established on the cutters and were building up reputations as excellent navigators , boat handlers or engineers , as well as hitting the headlines occasionally with notable seizures or rescues at sea . |
| 7 | Vast fortunes and vast debts exist only in green digits displayed on a video screen , to be wiped out or distorted at will . |
| 8 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 9 | Many books deal with women at work , perhaps focusing briefly on their dual role at work and home , or looking at housework , but not exploring the extent to which women work and contribute to the work process . |
| 10 | Love was n't something you could give or withhold at will . |
| 11 | Somehow or other one has to make flattery , or playacting at agreement , more dangerous than argument . |
| 12 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 13 | There had been no buying or selling at Seamer for very many years , but in 1987 hundreds of gypsies arrived with the intention of reviving the horse trading which used to take place . |
| 14 | Domesticated buffaloes lumbered through the flooded fields , too , hauling tiny wooden plows , or wallowed at rest in deeper hollows with only their scimitar-shaped horns and noses showing above the water . |
| 15 | Pre-recorded cassettes , designed to be used on the nature trail , can be loaned to groups , or bought at cost price . |
| 16 | Only one-third of sucrose consumption is visible , as that added to our tea and coffee or used at home . |
| 17 | Several families they knew had sons or fathers missing or drowned at sea , and men were being sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force . |
| 18 | Standing stones on their own , in groups , or in circular henge patterns often seem an integral part of the rocky landscape , growing out of the earth itself or lying at ease upon it ; but the work of human hands can be detected in the cup-and-ring decorations on some , the geometrical arrangement of others . |
| 19 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 20 | For him the laws of settlement hardly prevented the " idle poor " from wandering and a stricter enforcement of vagrancy laws would " compel the poor to starve or beg at home ; for there it will be impossible for them to steal or rob without being presently hanged or transported out of the way " . |
| 21 | Originally nature spirits , fees would metamorphose into fog or cloud , mountain stones or moss at will . |
| 22 | They have then concluded that going on to further education or staying at school are better options . |
| 23 | Slaves , as property , were under the absolute power of their owners ; they could be bought , sold or traded at the whim of the master , and were occasionally awarded as prizes in lotteries , or wagered at gaming tables . |
| 24 | Salt concentrations near the surface may make them especially inhospitable to vegetation ; only the soils of damper areas , in which salts are distributed evenly or concentrated at depth , are likely to support plant propagules . |
| 25 | This can be accommodated by providing a pointer or note at PS indicating that it is in fact PI . |
| 26 | Or note at foot of page ? |
| 27 | Sometimes he and Hayward would invite friends to dinner at the Good Intent , a restaurant in the Kings Road , or entertain at home . |
| 28 | So is not smoking or drinking at night . |
| 29 | I do not feel therefore , there is any crime for the trade union role in , in the constitutional procedure of the Party , whether it be selecting candidates or voting at conference , indeed I feel it is the strength of the movement . |
| 30 | Whether to marry or pursue a career ; when to have children — or , indeed , whether to have them at all ; whether and when to return to work after the children are born ; whether to continue working or stay at home and look after an aged relative — the problems for today 's woman are endless . |