Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 2 | Four abseils down the corner ( the first chain is on the path ) will take you to Le Jardin , a hanging terrace complete with mini-forest . |
| 3 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 4 | I usually walk around the corner to a place nearby , but today I thought it might be worthwhile to eat at a small Chinese restaurant several blocks away where a lot of newspaper guys gather . |
| 5 | They come home from work , hang on the corner , go up to eat , back to the corner , up a show [ sic ] , and they come back to hang on the corner . |
| 6 | You will see where the corner between the top of the nostril and the eyebrow is rounded over and the cuts are made both from the nostril up and from the eyebrow down , forming a gradual taper down towards the mouth in the process . |
| 7 | So we all walked down the corner there we all had our beds round there everything was laid out . |
| 8 | External angles can be finished off by fitting a rebated angle moulding down the corner . |
| 9 | After seeing Mr Stephens disappear around the corner , she examined the small room minutely , the books on the shelf — reading out all their titles aloud — the three prints on the wall , " The Education of the Young Raleigh " , " Derwentwater at Dawn " and " The Drunkard 's Children " — drew her boots appreciatively over the mat , picked up the jug of pencils and finally came to the oven which was next to the sink . |
| 10 | Huy watched him cross the little square in front of his house and disappear around the corner on the way back to the palace compound . |
| 11 | George ended up at the Private Eye 30th anniversary ball playing the harmonium and singing Lili Marlene with one of his ever-present Silk Cut hanging out the corner of his mouth , but there was no suggestion he was out of control . |
| 12 | Graham stormed up the corner he had cleaned . |
| 13 | They come home from work , hang on the corner , go up to eat , back to the corner , up a show [ sic ] , and they come back to hang on the corner . |
| 14 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 15 | When I used to turn down the corner of the strasse I heard her music . |
| 16 | they were laughing and giggling up the corner and er , I mean I did go just to let them know that although I did say I would n't come to every meeting I was quite prepared to still do |
| 17 | We live around the corner from each other , and visit one other 's homes . |
| 18 | Oh no I hate it when than ha when that happens , you fucking pull off the corner and the top do n't come off . |
| 19 | Compare , for example : ( 16a ) I was glad to see the police car come around the corner . |
| 20 | ( 16b ) I was glad I saw the police car come around the corner . |
| 21 | Erm so he set up the corner as a darkroom and started doing playing about with his with his own black and white printing . |