Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] corner " in BNC.

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1 A broken chair lay on its side in the far corner , its two front legs about a yard away .
2 Someone called Prue , who until today had remained hidden in the wardrobe-room on the first floor pedalling her sewing machine , had a chair allocated for her use in the prompt corner and a space reserved for cotton reels and safety pins on the props table in the wings .
3 It was his gloriously struck header that arrowed its way into the top corner of Leeds ' net to settle that 4th round tie .
4 Then she made her way to the little corner grocery shop , five minutes ' walk from Jubilee Street .
5 By now Dot would have had her dab with the damp corner of a towel at the sink on the landing .
6 Carrickcruppin 's Keith Quigley gets his chance in the right corner of the defence , while in the last line of attack Shane McConville and Barry O'Hagan have been included , alongside the experienced Kieran McGurk .
7 But on 69 minutes Apoel went ahead for the first time in the entire tie and it was to prove decisive , Christodoulous Pounas curling his corner into the far corner of the net .
8 Inching his way to the very corner of his protecting doorway , he tossed the jacket out towards the car , then moved out behind it .
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