Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he was going to read it , but instead he tore a piece off the corner . |
| 2 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 3 | ‘ Just after I left Joe , this side of the corner of Bal Lane . |
| 4 | Madeleine mopped Louis 's eyes with the corner of his napkin . |
| 5 | Installed by E. Rand and Sons ( Engineers ) Ltd , of Wetherden , near Stowmarket , in 1984 , it comprises 2 x 185 ft spans plus 5 x 170 ft spans with the corner system which automatically follows a buried guidance cable extending a further 256ft . |
| 6 | ‘ I can do without that , ’ replied the stranger brusquely , squeezing his bulk into the corner . |
| 7 | They had thrown the bear into the corner of the room . |
| 8 | Two men grabbed a battered old rocking horse from the corner , and rushed it towards Ilse . |
| 9 | Slatter was standing over a youth and his girlfriend in the corner . |
| 10 | ‘ Parked his car round the corner and walked straight into our arms . ’ |
| 11 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 12 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 13 | Inside , Ace folded one piece of plastic explosive round the corner that led into the anteroom , and placed the other above the altar . |
| 14 | Bits yes well Georgina round the corner apparently she has the lot new , because the bank moved them and they paid her and it was over four hundred pounds . |
| 15 | Some of the others protested at being separated from their belongings , but a Brazilian Corporal in the corner hit two people in the stomach and things moved fast after that . |
| 16 | In ten angular jerks and a trip Ranald rose from his seat in the corner by Luch to open the door for Lady Bridhe to leave . |
| 17 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
| 18 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 19 | The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front . |
| 20 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 21 | We literally started building the cars in the corner of the workshop . ’ |
| 22 | Granddad in the corner . |
| 23 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 24 | Chris trailed back , dragging his bat in disgust , but loudly clapped by his team and the little group of parents around the scorer 's shack in the corner of the field . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , there 's the lav and the 'andbasin that 's on the landin' , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ but you got your own gas ring in the corner there . |
| 26 | ‘ Quits , ’ she said cheerfully , and carried the copper kettle to the brass tap let into the front of the water tank which sat in the big iron stove alongside the kitchen fire , and ran the hot water into it before she set it not on the fire , but on a small gas ring in the corner , lighting the gas with a match from a box of Swan Vestas . |
| 27 | Afterwards , I sat on his lap while he drank some of that funny-smelling liquid and stared at the moving pictures in the corner . |
| 28 | Nor the neighbours , nor the postman and the milkman , nor the shopkeepers in the run of shops round the corner . |
| 29 | A young woman , an SS auxiliary in uniform , sat at a typewriter in the corner . |
| 30 | We 're all safe here , and no one is going to hurt you … least of all these gentlemen in the corner . ’ |