Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 31 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 32 | Clustered in the corner of an airless photographic studio , five worried mothers are discussing what to give their children for dinner . |
| 33 | A notice on the wall said that it was forbidden to serve drinks to Muslims and a television set flickered in the corner . |
| 34 | She peered round the corner of the house . |
| 35 | An echo : Once in fourth grade , he was sent to stand in the corner , next to the blackboard ; whilst there , he powdered his face with white chalk and when he turned around he was a clown , beaming a smile at the class like The Joker in Batman . |
| 36 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 37 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 38 | Sighs of relief stuck in my throat as the cacophony of rumbles and clangs which portends a tractor with a roller in tow , carried round the corner . |
| 39 | Motionless on his stool , Frankie stared first at Buddie 's dark profile , then at the huge brown and black body curled in the corner . |
| 40 | Quickly , silently , he moved round the corner and down the corridor , stopping outside the door beside the dragon . |
| 41 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 42 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 43 | One night , early in February 1518 , the three of us were in a tavern called the Chariot , a cosy little ale house which stands on the corner of the Rue des Mineurs near the church of Saint Sulpice . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | He had come to the corner , and turned it ; and beheld the carriages . |
| 46 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 47 | The men sheltered under a tarpaulin slung across the corner of the barge . |
| 48 | Tom stopped at the corner where the shop stood and looked across at the Fire Station . |
| 49 | Tom stopped at the corner of the small road near the corset shop and glanced down at the tiny alleyway where the artist 's shop stood . |
| 50 | She stopped at the corner as the two scientists approached the doors . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | I stopped at the corner of Bleeker Street . |
| 53 | Walking around the corner is a wilder area , which is enclosed by trellis made of stout poles and hung with a most bewildering variety of clematis . |
| 54 | She only lives around the corner . ’ |
| 55 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 56 | They asked Mrs thomas to let them in , but she held a note up to the window asking them to fetch her daughter , Mr Bellamy 's mother , who lives around the corner . |
| 57 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 58 | A flicker , caught by the corner of an eye , will cause the head to turn and invite foveal scrutiny . |
| 59 | From the penalty spot , Rook drove into the corner for his second of the game and give his side a passage into the next round , a defeat that sees City 's interest in Cup games at an end for this season . |
| 60 | 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 . |