Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summer the skilifts convert to chairlifts and , combining the use of two stages of chairlift with some walking it is possible to ascend to the 1,922m ( 6,304ft ) summit with its commanding oversight of this corner of the cantons of Schwyz and Uri . |
| 2 | The number of farmers is decreasing , 16 at the last count , but agriculture is still the dominant industry in this corner of East Yorkshire . |
| 3 | A member of the Stores Platoon is engrossed with the fax machine in another corner of the tent , passing demands for urgently required spare parts , not available in theatre , to the Logistic Operations Centre at SHAPE ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe ) at Mons in Belgium . |
| 4 | Everything I learn now finds its proper place in some corner of whatever 's already there . |
| 5 | Secondary , or higher , education in that corner of Oxfordshire had enjoyed an interesting but not untypical history . |
| 6 | He had won the biggest-ever majority in this corner of South Wales but it was not enough . |
| 7 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 8 | The De Belving manse was more like a palace than a house , having an ostentatious spire at each corner from which flags bearing the family seals declared their status on the wind . |
| 9 | Probably not , but there had certainly been a tremor at each corner of his mouth . |
| 10 | The girl who was now confronting Joe was someone strange and of whom he held no memory in any corner of his mind . |
| 11 | 6 What size is the angle at each corner of this page ? |
| 12 | Before I moved to Sheffield in 1970 I had done my homework and knew that for a first visit to this corner of the Peak the venue had to be the last of these three crags . |