Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.

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1 You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’
2 My hand holding the receiver was shaking ; I pressed it against the corner of a door to stabilize it .
3 The Feldwebel took it into a corner and pulled out a large envelope which he threw onto the table .
4 ‘ It was to guard the plumbing , ’ said the foreman , crushing the Coke tin with his hand and throwing it into a corner .
5 He stared at the paper for a moment then crumpled it angrily into a ball and tossed it into a corner .
6 Ymor crumpled the note and tossed it into a corner .
7 Eddie Brady dumped the briefcase on the floor with the heap of folders on top , took off the tweed jacket and threw it into a corner , and dragged two chairs from under the cluttered table .
8 He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room .
9 The ball fell clear and Benjamin put it into the corner of the net from 15 yards .
10 He put her down on the bed , and , removing the crutch from her nerveless hand , tossed it into the corner , before sitting beside her .
11 It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm
12 Obviously , you 'll be hiding it in a corner until it 's time to make your move .
13 Moxie folded the quilt and put it in the corner where the bed had been .
14 Angrily she pulled the sheet from the bed and thrust it in the corner of the room in a tight heap .
15 After she 'd completed her delivery round of the dressing rooms , Lucy came back into the department , took off her coat and threw it in the corner , and then threw herself onto one of the available chairs with an equal lack of ceremony .
16 Go and do it in the corner , ’ said one Glasgow mother to her child , in a story that has passed into the folklore of the Second World War .
17 You 've seen it in the corner of the office .
18 She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden .
19 ‘ There must be some method of edging it round the corner , ’ said Ludens .
20 I parked Armstrong on Soho Square and hoofed it round the corner into Dean Street , keeping an eye out for the fly-posters to see if anyone interesting was playing in the vicinity .
21 Stockton North MP Frank Cook said : ‘ You can picture the scene : a consultant walks into a care unit with five or six patients struggling , fighting for their lives and says : ‘ Hands up those who have 15 breaths left in them to make it round the corner . ’
22 Eh yeah Rick 's er , Rick 's car broke down you know and , and van broke down and somebody he , he , he lived in Clifton and worked at Radcliff on Trend and somebody says to him oh you can borrow our car it was a Reliant Regal , eh he said oh god , you know , I 'll have to park it round the corner , and he got out , did n't go into work , you know go to work every day where erm
23 Is it round the corner ?
24 No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he
25 Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister .
26 I compared myself to a dog who has got hold of a large piece of meat , and runs away with it to a corner , where he may devour it in peace , without any fear of others taking it from him . ’
27 They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above .
28 They learned it on the corner
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