Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sensible compromise would be first to use medians to set aside atypical behaviour , and then to apply some form of mean analysis to the median smooth to round off the corners . |
| 2 | He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned . |
| 3 | It would clearly be impracticable for all of a party 's members to foregather from every corner of a region to select and rank its list candidates , so it is sometimes suggested that American style primaries should be held for this purpose . |
| 4 | Like I I see it done today I think that sort of thing , you used to stand in a corner . |
| 5 | An echo : Once in fourth grade , he was sent to stand in the corner , next to the blackboard ; whilst there , he powdered his face with white chalk and when he turned around he was a clown , beaming a smile at the class like The Joker in Batman . |
| 6 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 7 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One way to smooth off the corners would be to use running means of three on the 3R smooth . |
| 10 | But with seconds remaining Leicester captain Steve Walsh played a ball up to Russell — introduced 11 minutes earlier — and he ran clear to shoot into the corner of the net . |
| 11 | The two men came face-to-face in a New York hotel and Maloney said Lewis came close to ‘ laying out ’ the world champion adding : ‘ Bowe had to duck round the corner . ’ |
| 12 | Designed to fit into a corner or against a wall . |
| 13 | Shoreline also have a popular variation on the castle theme ( illustrated ) designed to fit into the corner of the tank and mask an uplift ( or mask and protect a heaterstat ) . |
| 14 | Over by the window there was a wardrobe that had been built to fit into the corner , tall and heavy , mirror-fronted with small brass teardrop handles . |
| 15 | The one who used to walk round the corner and get round that corner and give it all that . |
| 16 | My master hurried away to vomit in a corner . |
| 17 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 18 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 19 | Drape over , press down over the top and sides , and smooth to fit over the corners before trimming away excess around the base . |
| 20 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
| 21 | Take time to look at the corner of the Hospital wall where stands a memorial to King Edward VII surmounted by a bronze of St. George and the Dragon by the eminent sculptor Sir George Frampton . |
| 22 | If b 1.8 , a 2x2 or larger cluster of D will continue to grow at the corners ( although not necessarily along the edges , for large squares ) ; for b 1.8 , big D clusters shrink . |
| 23 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 24 | You mean you ca n't see it to put round the corner here like this ? |
| 25 | Suzie has lit the fire , and has set one small light to glow in the corner of the room . |
| 26 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 27 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 28 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 29 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 30 | Twenty should be alright and just half an inch to go round the corner . |