Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [adj] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every room there was a stairway in one corner leading up to the room above . |
| 2 | But apart from a commode under the bed , and a rickety table with a cracked basin and ewer upon it , the only other furnishing the room afforded was a rail across one corner for her wardrobe , with a cotton curtain to conceal the clothes that would be hung upon it . |
| 3 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 4 | Changing mat that folds over top and is attached with a popper at each corner . |
| 5 | Changing mat fold over top and is attached with a popper at each corner ; inside is lined with plastic and there is a useful wide inner pocket . |
| 6 | I parked Armstrong half on the pavement on Bateman Street , a cut-through little road running west-east , whereas most of Soho is north-south , with a pub on each corner and new shiny offices where once there were honest porn merchants and working girls plying their trade . |
| 7 | This we did and carried the remaining one between us — sort of a boy at each corner , that is if a horseshoe shape has corners . |
| 8 | Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again . |
| 9 | Well what a waste of bloody corner , were n't it ? |
| 10 | The paper is fixed to a piece of board with masking tape all round and a staple in each corner . |
| 11 | The table 's steel surface was ridged with a network of channels that led to a drain-hole in one corner . |
| 12 | Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab . |
| 13 | Over the back of a chair in one corner lay a dress , neatly hanging , while on the seat of chair lay a small pile of immaculate underthings . |
| 14 | There was a television in one corner of the room . |
| 15 | Probably not , but there had certainly been a tremor at each corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 17 | Just to show I 'm nobody 's fool I contacted a veterinary surgeon and asked him to examine the dog ( who was a year old ) to make sure it was n't sickly , had a leg on each corner , would n't keep toppling over , and had a head fixed on the right end . |
| 18 | Otherwise the small single room was almost bare ; a bed in one corner , a dresser before the single window , a small table with two chairs flat against the far wall . |
| 19 | There was a bed in one corner still unmade , although it was five o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 20 | You ca n't see a thing round that corner can you ? |
| 21 | If very dirty they lay it in the stream , securing it with a large stone , and let the water flow through it for some time , after which they proceed as before … the linen is spread upon the rocks in the river , or the walls near at hand , and secured , like everything else by a stone at each corner … |
| 22 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
| 23 | A couple in one corner kiss discreetly over the brandy . |
| 24 | There had been a fire in one corner . |