Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 2 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 3 | They stopped at the corner and Chris said anxiously , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've said all the wrong things , seemed to dwell on my side of things . |
| 4 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 5 | They parked round the corner . ’ |
| 6 | They walk into the corner of the TV set and you think they 've broken their skull , but they just bounce off ; next moment they sit down very gently on their bottoms which are padded with what looks like fifteen nappies and they burst into tears . |
| 7 | He had his eyes downcast when they came to the corner of the great hall , and he did not see the Prince approaching , leading by the hand an unknown lady . |
| 8 | But as they came around the corner to the front of the house , they heard a familiar reedy voice hail them and , turning , found themselves confronted by Miss Merchiston herself , her pale eyes going from one to the other with the air of one who had known how it would be . |
| 9 | They were like untrained puppies or untrained kittens ; they messed in the corner of any room ’ . |
| 10 | They separated at the corner of Friday and Fish Streets , agreeing to meet within two hours at a tavern outside Aldgate on the Mile End Road . |
| 11 | As they arrived at the corner , four men walked up to them , and one pointed at Dad . |
| 12 | Off they went to the corner of the street to see if they could see anything . |
| 13 | The thoughts swirled through her mind as she followed Silas and Doreen to the dining-room , and as they went towards the corner table Matt stood up . |
| 14 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 15 | Well after they went round the corner one of these erm well stupid young lads in the back er lifted his two fingers on the pickets . |
| 16 | He started the bike , eased it forwards and suddenly they were tilting over as they went round the corner . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's getting popular , ’ said Markby as they squeezed into a corner settle near the fire . |
| 18 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 19 | They parted at the corner of St Martin 's Lane and Gillian made her way home on her own . |
| 20 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 21 | After dinner he went out with four of the ladies from Leicester , including his special friend Pamela Berry , to The Crown , where they sat in a corner of the lounge bar until closing time . |
| 22 | They sat in a corner watching the citizens of every class and station go noisily by , eager to reserve a good place from which to watch the day 's events . |
| 23 | They sat in the corner and he pumped her for any information she might have gleaned from Wickham . |
| 24 | Then the two of them ran round the corner as fast as they could . |
| 25 | Sammy watched them digging from a corner of the garden . |