Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is a window on either side of a corner , again the aim is to unify them . |
| 2 | He turned well , however , and dived to save at the expense of a corner . |
| 3 | A minute later a low shot from RUC top scorer Love was saved by the keeper White at the expense of a corner . |
| 4 | ‘ Are the teachers strict here ? ’ asked Sybil , wiping her eyes with a corner of her voluminous cloak . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's what I thought , ’ Dana said , mopping her eyes with a corner of the towel . |
| 6 | They sat in the back row and watched a newsreel of Jack Gardiner punching Bruce Woodcock into a corner , followed by a cartoon . |
| 7 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 8 | At the time of the explosion , he had been trapped at least by the legs in a corner where his shoes were found and some debris had fallen on him . |
| 9 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 10 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 11 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 12 | In the Red Anchor , he found a quiet seat in a corner . |
| 13 | The path now follows Fleet Dyke until a corner where new edging work has been carried out on the sides of the bank . |
| 14 | We took our places side by side in a corner with the bare boards of the table stretching away into the distance , " I told you you 'd get a real good meal , did n't I , Well , here it is . " |
| 15 | Once I was talking alone to Lucy in a corner , laughing together and , as I impulsively took one of her hands in both of mine , I heard a sharp cry of ‘ Lucy ! |
| 16 | Suddenly she caught sight of St Ives seated with Dawn Allenby in a corner of the restaurant . |
| 17 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 18 | Added to straightforward handling which gives just a hint of oversteer when the throttle is lifted on the entrance to a corner , the result is a car that can accomplish long distances over give-and-take roads without ever tiring the driver . |
| 19 | On 28th June 1914 , Gavrilo Princip , a nineteen-year old student , took advantage of a corner , and as the State carriage made its slow turn , dashed forward with a pistol . |
| 20 | Grimsby 's Tom Watson was booked for throwing the ball down in anger at the award of a corner for Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | Using their favoured analogy in which the complexities of a nation-state were reduced to the simplicities of a corner shop balance sheet , the newly appointed boss of the Institute took up the cudgels again in February 1990 . |
| 22 | The central station at Melbourne , Flinders Street , built in Edwardian times , was reconstructed as a massive classical range with a corner entrance crowned by a dome . |
| 23 | Milton apologised to the chief of the anti-terrorist squad and took Pooley into a corner . |
| 24 | On sentry duty one night , in the magazine of all places , I propped myself with my rifle on guard in a corner and somehow or other managed to let my feet out at about 30° to 35° to the vertical , and I fell asleep . |
| 25 | Luch bedded on a bag of bracken in a corner , but she and Ranald woke earlier than the old man . |
| 26 | For new floorboards in the hall in a corner where water had dripped from a leaky pipe . |
| 27 | My skin crawled , and I shivered a bit as I stood there , desolate as a child in a corner . |
| 28 | the girl in a corner , forgetting everything |
| 29 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 30 | Left alone , the Doctor dabbed at the wet patch on his cheek with a corner of his handkerchief . |