Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 2 | Shoreline also have a popular variation on the castle theme ( illustrated ) designed to fit into the corner of the tank and mask an uplift ( or mask and protect a heaterstat ) . |
| 3 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 4 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |
| 5 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 6 | The two men came face-to-face in a New York hotel and Maloney said Lewis came close to ‘ laying out ’ the world champion adding : ‘ Bowe had to duck round the corner . ’ |
| 7 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
| 8 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |