Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] on the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a man cooking chestnuts on the corner and I stop and warm my hands over the fire and look at the Christmas tree . |
| 2 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |
| 3 | ‘ It means , what about the department store on the corner ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’ |
| 5 | However , Binn 's department store on the corner of High Row and Blackwellgate could suffer greatly because of pedestrianisation , said Mr Neil Setterfield , assistant manager . |
| 6 | She could almost touch him now , but he was frowning , running his finger over and over the Paisley pattern on the corner of the duvet that overlapped the sill . |
| 7 | The restaurant , in the former Royal Bank of Scotland building on the corner of Buchanan Street and Gordon Street , will open in June . |
| 8 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 9 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 10 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 11 | Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay . |
| 12 | The tavern was just near the Custom House on the corner of Thames Street , a grand , spacious affair with a green-leaved ale-stake pushed under the eaves from which hung a huge , gaudily painted sign . |
| 13 | There was a Post Office on the corner opposite the Post Office chapel , Post er opposite the Baptist chapel and er up the back yard there , there was this premise , it was behind a pub called the Beehive and erm I rented it out there and er that was nextdoor to and the castings was a shilling a pound and er |
| 14 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 15 | Continuing with the estate map , at Halling Bottom on the corner of Vicarage Road , there stands one house , this was the house known as Forge Cottage which was demolished after the last war . |
| 16 | Hope no-one will miss the phone box on the corner … |
| 17 | The demolition and clearage of the old site allowed the erection , during the following year , of the new Fire Station , complete with practice tower , the position giving easier access to the surrounding neighbourhood compared with the restricted access from the old fire station position on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens . |
| 18 | Shortly after he started at the restaurant he told Wayne that he was moving to Mrs O'Neill 's boarding house on the corner of Main Street and Railway Avenue . |
| 19 | Athelstan sketched a blessing in the air at his tormentor , dismounted and led Philomel past the church of St Magnus on the corner of Bridge Street . |
| 20 | Dr Hendron 's remarks came in the wake of the murder of Cairnshill Road man Sean Hughes as he worked in Jon David 's hairdressing salon on the corner of the Falls and the Donegall Road at 3.50pm on Tuesday . |
| 21 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 22 | Her new husband , William Chinnock , had affiliations with the Zion Chapel on the corner of Catherine Hill and Whittox Lane , and had been baptised there as an infant in 1789 . |
| 23 | Boulevard , that 's with the bed shop on the corner |
| 24 | A gas lamp on the corner of Glebe Street near St Mungo 's Academy was askew . |
| 25 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 26 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 27 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 28 | The railway lines define the neighbourhood all right : Railway Hotel on the corner that the Council 's started using for temporary accommodation for other single mothers not so lucky as she , as the social worker kept telling her ; Railway Cafe opposite the launderette with coloured transfers on the window and a goldfish tank next to the curry puffs and ketchup bottles . |
| 29 | The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule . |
| 30 | Hitch pointed to the pay phone on the corner of the street and Scott brought the Lancia to a halt , watching as his companion walked across to the phone , picked it up and dialled , feeding more money in . |