Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 3 | The eventual combination of colour , texture and tone seemed quite pleasing and I was particularly taken by the subtle effect that arose from having a different background colour beneath the corners and sides of the border . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ They are buried in paupers ’ graves beneath the old elm tree in the corner of the churchyard . |
| 6 | There were tiny laughter lines at the corners of the eyes . |
| 7 | In this motion I have actually requesting that the closure be brought forward in order to relieve what is a dangerous traffic situation at the corner of causeway and . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |
| 10 | Now Mr Wakeham said yesterday that high petrol prices are here to stay , considering what you 've just said , does that mean we can see a three pound gallon around the corner ? |
| 11 | His large oak chair in the corner was sacred , and the words that he uttered from that privileged seat were truly spoken ex cathedra . |
| 12 | which is what I , I , in the I had Eric Bristow and Maureen one night , and , I mean , it was just little dart board in the corner , but what I did was , I had a big screen like that and I just got student television service just to film it live and just throw it straight back up onto the big |
| 13 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |
| 14 | The ancient grandfather clock in the corner chimed ten times . |
| 15 | A shallow stone sink in the corner where Rose unbuttoned the front of her dress to wash herself . |
| 16 | If what you want is to peruse a publication like Big Women , you 'll find it in a discreet magazine rack in a corner of the Smoking Room . |
| 17 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 18 | I could catch a live sex show around the corner , in bleeding Seventh Avenue . |
| 19 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | And , to give the table setting a special festive feel , Kate has attached wide red satin ribbons from the corners , taken them up into a pyramid shape and tied them to the lamp above . |
| 22 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 23 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 24 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 25 | Needless to say , the yellow and red-awninged snack vendors at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Eighty-eighth Street are in hot dog heaven . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , there 's the lav and the 'andbasin that 's on the landin' , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ but you got your own gas ring in the corner there . |
| 27 | Then , when the rice and meat were ready , Mina fetched some pots of river-water from the big copper container in the corner and everyone washed their hands where they were sitting round the fire . |
| 28 | Taking up the big garden fork in the corner , she went straight out again . |
| 29 | A late flourishing of Victorian Gothic designed by Sir Rowand Anderson , this red stone building at the corner of Queen Street houses both the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , each well worth visiting . |
| 30 | Sean Duffett had given Brightlingsea a 13th minute lead from a corner and Jackie Gallagher did not head Wisbech level until the 80th minute . |