Example sentences of "little [noun sg] on [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma . |
| 2 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 3 | And that little cross sometimes it 's a little hole on the corner on the angle itself . |
| 4 | A pretty Israeli girl had been selling magazines in the little paper-shop on the corner . |
| 5 | At last Athelstan found the Golden Lamb , a little tavern on the corner of an alleyway . |
| 6 | So and smashed all the windows and everything in it erm so what 's that and as I say it was only a scrap van er and now he 'd bought the little chapel on the corner . |