Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small tree on the pedestal in the corner has been decorated with white fairy lights and satin bows |
| 2 | On the bed in the corner the spavined figure of Sixsmith was gawkily arranged . |
| 3 | Alice went in , stacked the forsythia in a jug on the stool in the corner of the kitchen , sat down . |
| 4 | As soon as I rounded the line of fitted units screening off the kitchen I saw her slumped on the floor in the corner , huddled up as though against the cold . |
| 5 | ‘ When you are on the floor in the corner you will know what I have done , Captain Rudakov . ’ |
| 6 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 7 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 8 | It 's right on the prom on the corner on , on North Prom . |
| 9 | Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up . |
| 10 | The cuber on the shelf in the corner showed Spiderglass ships on a rescue mission ; a star-map cut to the Madreidetic colony out Alpha Proxima way , with shots of swollen-bellied children . |
| 11 | I can hardly see the things on the table in the corner . |
| 12 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 13 | Her birthday presents were still piled neatly on the chair in the corner , and her cards stood on the top of the dressing-table . |
| 14 | Finally , Frank Crockford showed a clear pair of heels on a run to the corner after that man Powell had again made the opening by bursting through the centre . |
| 15 | The thin little cat , her repast spread on a newspaper in the corner , dug her sharp white teeth into the cod 's head , closing her eyes in bliss the while . |
| 16 | ‘ Love one , ’ said Greg , and watched as Hilary went over to a little kettle on a hot-plate in the corner of the room and slopped boiling water over a tea-bag . |
| 17 | Mother Bombie settled herself on a crate in the corner and assumed an air of pious resignation . |
| 18 | I took a pile of the French and American magazines that lay on a table in the corner and went out under the colonnade . |
| 19 | In 1930 , when she was eighty-four , Caroline met Willa Cather in Aix-les-Bains , and recalled the hours spent eighty years earlier on a rug in the corner of Gustave 's study : he working , she reading , in strict but proudly observed silence . |
| 20 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |
| 21 | Luch slept quietly on a pallet in the corner , her sore arm bandaged , her baby tucked safe beside her . |
| 22 | When he was semi-retired he sat on a chair in the corner of the saloon , gossiping away to his customers . |
| 23 | Robert put Hasan on a chair in the corner . |