Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , two paintings , both listed as ‘ Untitled ’ ( 1979 ) , in the exhibition , are death-like with the horse figure hanging vertical or slumped in a corner against a field of greys . |
| 2 | or coming around the corner on his tractor |
| 3 | Cos it people come off the sites or go to the corner shop , do n't cross the road . |
| 4 | While Hank was , in his grandparents ’ opinion , too small to be left alone , the two grandmothers had insisted that he accompany his mother , and he had enjoyed wandering round the Palichuk pig farm with his grandfather or playing in a corner of the lounge of his Grandmother Stych 's more fashionable home . |
| 5 | ‘ A small cup , ’ the paladin said , eyeing with misgiving the black grease-encrusted cooking range that squatted in a corner like an enormous metal dragon . |
| 6 | Forcing herself , she worked for an hour or two on the great heap of stuff purloined from the skips that lay in a corner of the hall ; fitting a curtain here , laying a rug there . |
| 7 | Hot rumpy on the beach , with Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster inadvertently heralding the libidinous fury of the rock 'n' roll revolution that lay around the corner . |
| 8 | Even afterwards , when I was a teenager , I paid for my bad timing , coming just too early to enjoy the fun and freedom that waited round the corner . |
| 9 | Acknowledge people when you arrive rather than slinking into a corner . |
| 10 | yeah , I think it 's an organ , and that , that is all in those two recesses , now , you know if I find you know that I do n't get anywhere and I ca n't see that I wo n't , but if , because the bathroom is where the dog is there , of course consequently that comes through the corner of the lounge |
| 11 | He followed Martin to the drinks cabinet that stood in a corner of the hall . |
| 12 | It is always easier to create in a cavern than concoct in a corner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 15 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 16 | And goes and sits in the corner . |
| 17 | They were in Hennessey 's in the Strand and tucked into a corner . |
| 18 | The one feature that does survive in various historic towns is the Georgian summer house , often square with a pyramid roof and perched on a corner above a garden wall to take advantage of the view . |
| 19 | The two hedgers and ditchers were flat out and snoring in the corner pew . |
| 20 | More than half a sweaty hour touring the environs of the station , revealed there was n't space to park even a roller-skate , so I adopted a to-hell-with-it attitude and parked in a corner of the horseshoe — well out of everybody 's way . |
| 21 | Aunt Margaret glanced round for something with which to distract her and darted to the corner where the cage was . |
| 22 | She had mastered Eddie 's cycle and came around the corner as though she were taking part in one of the bicycle races which had recently become such a popular spectator sport . |
| 23 | First operation — this included ( a ) floor : bottom , sides ( received from the sawmill in two portions ) ; end bars and crossbars were fixed in position on the underframe , the whole was cramped together and secured by the corner knees . |
| 24 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |
| 25 | Proctor gathered the rebound and scored in the corner . |
| 26 | Like the being able to slip out of his own head and stand in a corner , hang on the ceiling , terrifyingly , silent-screamingly BE SOMEWHERE ELSE , looking back at the body left behind . |
| 27 | Yeah you go and stand in a corner in a minute . |
| 28 | Go and stand in the corner on one leg with your face to the wall ! ’ |
| 29 | I slip across the floor and stand in the corner of the room , so I 'll be away from , but behind , the kitchen door when they open it . |
| 30 | Put on the hat and stand in the corner . |