Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |
| 2 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 3 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 4 | We never allowed two or three to gather on the corner . |
| 5 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 6 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |