Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would clearly be impracticable for all of a party 's members to foregather from every corner of a region to select and rank its list candidates , so it is sometimes suggested that American style primaries should be held for this purpose . |
| 2 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 3 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |
| 4 | But with seconds remaining Leicester captain Steve Walsh played a ball up to Russell — introduced 11 minutes earlier — and he ran clear to shoot into the corner of the net . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
| 9 | Take time to look at the corner of the Hospital wall where stands a memorial to King Edward VII surmounted by a bronze of St. George and the Dragon by the eminent sculptor Sir George Frampton . |
| 10 | Suzie has lit the fire , and has set one small light to glow in the corner of the room . |
| 11 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 12 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 13 | Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision . |
| 14 | Alice turned her face to him and tired to erase from a corner of her mind an image of Louise standing like a ghost in the doorway of the house , watching her leave . |
| 15 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 16 | It is useful to sit at the corner of a small table ( a card table is excellent ) whilst your discussion partner sits at the opposite comer — ensuring a one-to-one contact and leaving space between you . |
| 17 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 18 | It was a movement so subtle that it seemed to occur from the corner of her eye . |