Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Liberal Democrats believe that the cabinet is already too large and that such a proposal risks sweeping the issues that need to be addressed into the corner . |
| 2 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 3 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 4 | Two chauffeurs linger in the corner , one white with blond hair , the other a good-looking black guy . |
| 5 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 6 | He suffers from a ‘ sense of injured merit ’ , and like a spoiled child , sulking in the corner , he sulks in Hell and vows always to defy good for the sake of evil , in the vain hope of getting his own back . |
| 7 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 8 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 9 | But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner . |
| 10 | A pile of toy animals lies in the corner of the gallery in Telling Tales . |
| 11 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 12 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 13 | You know , he may take you for a meal after he 's stayed a , a fortnight , and it 'll , he might lose his wallet , or , take you to the sausage and chips place round the corner , so he , he 's a nightmare . |
| 14 | The two hedgers and ditchers were flat out and snoring in the corner pew . |
| 15 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 16 | Henry stands in the corner , too expectant to be rude . |
| 17 | The renewed buzzing of a fly trapped in the corner of the pane ceased to seem quite so near . |
| 18 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 19 | The sergeant began to have serious worries respecting his car , which was parked round the corner , an open street map of Mansfield on the passenger seat . |
| 20 | I bet myself he had a Skoda parked round the corner . |
| 21 | Ah well there 's a caravan parked round the corner . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of walking round the corner on my own . ’ |
| 23 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 24 | She was addressing a massive and gaudy macaw perched in the corner , side-facing her suspiciously . |
| 25 | The daughter who lives round the corner that gives most of the support [ PC ] is heading for a breakdown herself , she 's under considerable stress about Mum , but ca n't get cooperation from her brother and sister as to what should happen regarding the mother 's future … |
| 26 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 27 | Yeah he lives round the corner . |
| 28 | My sister Gillian , who lives round the corner , always drops her young son off early in the morning because she works shifts . |
| 29 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 30 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |