Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped at the corner of Bleeker Street . |
| 2 | I ate at the Corner House , very little , as it was not easy to pay the modest sum my landlady in Southwark , Mrs William Vitou , whose husband was a dental mechanic trained in Guy 's hospital , charged me , and eat a great deal apart from breakfast and a high tea . |
| 3 | Well funnily enough I went down there last week , and I must admit I I came round the corner and there was one particular vehicle still does it . |
| 4 | I ducked around the corner of the alleyway and flattened myself against the wall the way a flounder hugs the ocean floor . |
| 5 | I walked round the corner . |
| 6 | I scuttled to the corner and crouched , trembling and moaning . |
| 7 | Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place , I went round the corner to spit into the gutter . |
| 8 | ‘ My name 's Roy , ’ I said round the corner of the door . |
| 9 | I rattled in the corner of the great plastic sofa of a back seat . |
| 10 | I hurried round the corner to where I 'd parked Armstrong and climbed aboard . |
| 11 | She peered round the corner of the house . |
| 12 | She stopped at the corner as the two scientists approached the doors . |
| 13 | And er she says , sh she said you came round the corner too quick , you were n't there when I looked in the mirror ! |
| 14 | She came round the corner , this tiny thing who did not reach to the top of the bed board even with the extension of the umbrella . |
| 15 | She followed to the corner of the schoolroom , and there stood watching in silence as Tutilo mounted , and the little cavalcade filed out at the gate and turned along the Foregate . |
| 16 | As she spoke , she fiddled with the corner of her notepad . |
| 17 | She walked across the corner of the square , and did not look back . |
| 18 | Once inside she wriggled into the corner of the seat to make room for him , and prepared to enjoy the novelty . |
| 19 | She dashed around the corner , glad to see his dark bulk again . |
| 20 | She scurried around the corner into Barley Hill , but by the time she reached number 52 her hair was glistening with raindrops . |
| 21 | ‘ Stead of that , she went round the corner of the stable , and she hit the corner of the barn and turned the tumbril right over , that did ! |
| 22 | She peeped round the corner . |
| 23 | She hesitated at the corner , reluctant almost to discover that she was now , as of this moment , completely lost in the world , and for the first time she asked herself clearly why she had decided to come here . |
| 24 | This morning , inattentive to everything except the rhythmic ruffle of her rake in the fine gravel , and to the notes of the song she was la-la-ing quietly to herself as she worked , she did not notice Nicandra 's arrival , nor see her as she slipped round the corner of the house and pushed her way through the low branches of the Portugal laurels that screened Silly-Willie 's window from inquisitive visitors . |
| 25 | She ran around the corner and straight into the arms of John Delaney , screaming before she could stop herself . |
| 26 | She sat on the corner of the old sofa with her legs folded under her and stared at the window , willing the oil lamp not to sputter and distort the sounds that belonged to the night : the true night that lay outside in the garden and the valley and held dominion over the hills . |
| 27 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 28 | I remember being at primary school and the boys went to play football and you sat in the corner playing talking or the boys played football and the girls , would you believe it , got sex education ! |
| 29 | ‘ No , Joe Steer was with me until we got to the corner of Bal Lane , then he cut through to the terraces . ’ |
| 30 | As we got round the corner , Jo and I took one look at each other and ran . |