Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] at [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1984 , it became common for bail conditions , following arrests during the strike , to require those charged not to visit any premises or place for the purpose of picketing or demonstrating in connection with the current trade dispute between the NUM and the National Coal Board other than peacefully to picket or demonstrate at their usual place of employment . |
| 2 | Many parents manage aggression by hitting or shouting at their child . |
| 3 | erm you know never mind that most children who are beaten or abused or die at their , the hands of their parents er you know , do so at the hands of their heterosexual parents |
| 4 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 5 | It can be a fairly minor loss , like social status or face — some people suffer agonies for fear that someone will laugh at them or sneer at their taste or intelligence , for example . |
| 6 | She complained that British men must be homosexual not to make a pass at her or look at her legs . |
| 7 | Commission-paid salesmen sit or stand at their telephones calling punters and reading aloud their sales pitch : a sheet of paper on which is scrawled details of their investment proposition . |
| 8 | Locked together now , welded , this was purely a matter of power and its absence , history 's eternal lesson of the powerful absorbing the powerless , as first her lack of resistance and then her wild response empowered Luke — to take , to give , to plunder or to reward at his pleasure . |
| 9 | To anyone who has been in the Army or detained at Her Majesty 's pleasure , or even attended a public school ( and there are a disturbing number who have managed all three ) , the dining room at Plas y Benenin is a familiar place . |
| 10 | Consequently , some horses will go down in the paddock and eat more grass , others will walk or canter up and down the fence endlessly expecting their food , while others will call , ‘ I want my dinner ! ’ , or strike at their stable doors , or paw at the fencing . |
| 11 | In addition , they control resources which can be withdrawn or redeployed at their discretion , and are of vital importance for workers ' livelihood and the revenue base of state expenditure . |
| 12 | Any tendency he might have had to crow , or scoff at his achievements , was modified by the dreadful news from the continent . |
| 13 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 14 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 15 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 16 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 17 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 18 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 19 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 20 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 21 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 22 | If not , ask friends or colleagues for a personal recommendation ; or ask at your nearest Citizens Advice Bureau or Law Centre ; or consult one of the directories available which list all solicitors . |
| 23 | Look in your area trade directory to see where you can hire a machine with a dustbag attachment , or ask at your local hardware or DIY store . |
| 24 | All committee minutes are circulated to the Board or tabled at its next meeting . |
| 25 | It would be tedious to quote more than a few examples of the evidence from parliamentary commissions , the STC , union reports and surveys etc. , but the following quotations are typical : " About the only work which the women can do is to stand or sit at their formes and set up type ; and to distribute the types back again into the cases , but of course this is only a portion of a compositor 's work " ( an employer ) ; " " As far as mere type-lifting is concerned , she may do , but there is other rough work in connection with compositors " work which I do not think a woman is qualified for " ( a union leader ) ; " Women … get the best , i. e. the simplest jobs … they are kept always at pretty much the same kind of work " ( an employer ) . |
| 26 | Ideally , the salary of the disabled employee should be ‘ red-circled ’ or maintained at its present level , but only if red-circling would also occur upon reassignment for other reasons . |
| 27 | There is Jean Shrimpton standing waif-like in a wrinkled raincoat on Tower Bridge ; or tugging at her oversized jumper , one arm gently loped over her head in the hallway of 91 Heigham Road . |
| 28 | All Indian weavers , whether employed in large manufactories or working at their own family looms , are under contract to one of the major distributors , who tell them what sizes , colours and designs to weave . |
| 29 | She refused to put the lunch on any earlier in the day ; it would spoil the coffee mornings she liked to go to or have at her own home from eleven to one o'clock . |
| 30 | He took the cigarette holder out of his wide mouth and beamed at his visitor , his Roosevelt smile , warm and toothy . |