Example sentences of "[adj] corner [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 As you turn the pages , keep your eye on the volume numbers printed at the top left-hand corner till you see the number of the volume you are seeking ( 45 ) ; then go down the page-numbers in the left-hand margin till you see your page-number ( p.669 ) .
2 5 minutes left LEEDS apply the pressure , the ball rebounds to Strachan at the edge of the area , the ball flies in the top corner and I 've never felt as much relief around Elland road.The rest is history .
3 Yeah we do n't want you any more so go and , go and twiddle your thumbs in this corner but they 're still paying them twenty thousand a year .
4 The best chance Town had in the first half came from this corner and it came from skipper Colin Calderwood .
5 What is it smoking corner or something over there ?
6 The passenger was sitting in a dark corner and I could not see his face .
7 He carried two chairs and a table over to a dark corner where they could talk more freely .
8 Thank you for your interest , comrade , sit down in the listening corner and I shall begin .
9 This forced the Imperial Japanese government into a dangerous corner as she imported 80% of her oil from the USA .
10 He laid the ball back to Vasey , it was far too short , Ballwood latched on to it like a greyhound , drew Vasey , put the ball into the opposite corner and everybody all around was celebrating .
11 However , employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits .
12 Neil Butterfield was driving the roadsweeper along the A66 towards Scotch Corner when he overtook a pick-up van towing a trailer , Richmond magistrates were told .
13 But like you say , the floor can stand it and there 's nice little corner or whatever int there ?
14 And I 'm in the back in my little corner and my beloved wife Sandra walked in on what was , unbeknownst to her , this maniac , writing furious and tired .
15 They were finally rewarded when Wadforth fired them in front from a short corner but they momentarily relaxed and Pelicans replied almost immediately with a well-worked move from a long corner which caught out the defence .
16 She was weeping now and he guided her to a low wall in a secluded corner where they sat down .
17 She felt she had created a little peaceful corner where she could sit and feel close to both her late mother and her cat .
18 One friend , who has a job as well as a family of five , has her widowed mother living round one corner and her mother-in-law round the other .
19 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
20 Erm and I sli I yo pulled me up to one corner and I know it 's really nasty
21 It was dominated by a huge television in one corner and she pointed me towards an armchair , covered in worn corduroy , which had once been dark red .
22 Schellenberg 's office at Prinz Albrechtstrasse had a military camp bed in one corner for he often spent the night there .
23 Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab .
24 In a well established tub , I tend to dig five shallow holes , one at each corner and one in the middle .
25 and he , when you drill a hole in the corner each corner and he just put it on he just oh it were real lovely and it was as simple as that
26 So the cost of Prestel is going to be a local phone call plus an access fee , for the time you 're connected , and any extra charges you notch up by looking at paid-for pages ( the price per page is always in the top right-hand corner and you 're warned if you 're about to run up a charge ) .
27 Could we just er by following that up Chairman , suggest that they , that they look at p the provision of double yellow lines around the kerb , around those kerbs that go from lower Road into Road , because it 's on that corner that you get the , the van parked which is causing the visibility problems .
28 was in the back room cos of the size of the fireplace and one in that corner but they 're in the way , that was only temporary while the house is upside down and I 've put two
29 Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built .
30 it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept .
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