Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only sound was the soft tick of the tall clock in the corner , the cooing of pigeons and doves outside . |
| 2 | He tossed the empty packet onto the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table . |
| 3 | Take the steamer , not to Rutli direct but to the calling place round the corner of the Seelisberg cliff face , Treib ( which , by the way , is pronounced like the English word " tripe " ) . |
| 4 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 5 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 6 | She sat leaning against the white-painted wall in a corner diagonally opposite Lee . |
| 7 | He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres . |
| 8 | The old chap in the corner 's got them . |
| 9 | The silence in the room stretched out , unbroken except by the heavy , deliberate ticking of the long-case clock in the corner . |
| 10 | No aside the wee shop at the corner of Street . |
| 11 | I open the door to the little cloakroom in the corner , undecided about which form of relief to try , and hesitate between the brownish lavatory and the greenish tap . |
| 12 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Just gon na have to go on the little table in the corner right between |
| 15 | A pretty Israeli girl had been selling magazines in the little paper-shop on the corner . |
| 16 | When we go to lunch in the little street round the corner the proprietors ' three-year-old son rushes to meet us . |
| 17 | The large house on the corner is the Bylandt-Rheidtovsky Palace ( 13/171 ) built in the last quarter of the 17C . |
| 18 | I glanced at the answering machine in the corner and saw that the red light was glowing . |
| 19 | It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant . |
| 20 | I am aware it is some time since we spoke regarding Beeslack but I have been awaiting a response from , Senior Education Maintenance Officer concerning the tree planting proposed for the rough area in the corner of the playing field . |
| 21 | Television at home came later ; for now we watch it in the Italian cafe , where the price of a penny ice lolly opens the dusty chenille curtain and we can join the other children huddled in the darkness in front of the flickering screen in the corner . |
| 22 | Never cut off the excess fabric across the corner or you will not be able to let the curtain down . |
| 23 | She looked for sarcasm in his expression and spotted it , just for an instant , hidden in the slight curve at the corner of his mouth . |
| 24 | He held his hand to his forehead and loped across the bar toward the beautiful girl in the corner . |
| 25 | He poured the neat whisky into the corner of his mouth and wriggled with slow , painful relief . |
| 26 | Look , I 've booked us all into the Italian place round the corner . |
| 27 | His cheekbones were high , his nose straight as an arrow , his chin jutting , his mouth wide and sensual in spite of — or maybe because of — the stern downturn at the corner of his lips . |
| 28 | She bought wine at the off licence on the corner of Market Street and plunged between the bridge 's traffic , locked solid on a Saturday evening . |
| 29 | Mike Wedderburn taking the scenic route to the corner flag . |
| 30 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |