Example sentences of "[adv] to the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
| 2 | They walked side by side , not touching , down to the corner where Steep Street began . |
| 3 | I cleaned up the spill and walked down to the corner shop with my grocery list and three ten-bob notes to pay off last week 's ‘ strap ’ . |
| 4 | Give me my morning 's gentle stroll down to the corner paper shop , my afternoon 's lazy snooker match at the village club with a glass of you know what on the side-table , and my evening 's friendly ( is there any such thing ? ) solo or bridge games . |
| 5 | Now , just a shabby backwater in Belsize Park , but a nice , quiet area where a woman alone might walk down to the corner shop at midnight in safety and people minded their own business . |
| 6 | The fellow pointed down to the corner of the Mercery and Lawrence Street . |
| 7 | With Mike Taylor in the middle and Bill Brooker as last man , the team finally managed to traverse in to the corner from what is now Titan 's Wall . |
| 8 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 9 | She lifted her right arm and brought it down in a slashing sideways sweep on to his wrist , sending the gun clattering harmlessly to the corner of the room . |
| 10 | The first ones ran straight over to the corner of the roof , saw the drop and veered back , colliding with the others still pouring up the staircase . |
| 11 | Curtius took his drink and carried it over to the corner . |
| 12 | I looked over to the corner where a pretty girl with long brown hair and freckles was sitting . |
| 13 | Bernice moved purposefully over to the corner of the passenger section where their meagre supplies were stored . |
| 14 | She hesitated , her eyes showing a momentary unease , then she did as she was told , walking over to the corner where he had indicated . |
| 15 | The barmaid took the money wordlessly and Dexter swaggered over to the corner where Blanche was sitting . |
| 16 | While the rest of the group stood around the microphone Eva was invited to move over to the corner . |
| 17 | He went over to the corner by the fireplace and took the rope in his hand . |
| 18 | Twoflower padded over to the corner , poking gingerly at the stones in case there was a secret panel . |
| 19 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 20 | At that time there existed other good houses , up to the corner of Cedars Road , which were subsequently demolished to create the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension . |
| 21 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 22 | If we go back up to the corner of Rua de Carreira and Avenida Zarco and go up Rua das Pretas , we come to the Church of São Pedro which was completed in 1598 and then extensively restored in 1747–8 , when the front was altered . |
| 23 | The man hurried down some other steps , crept up to the corner of the wall , and listened . |
| 24 | But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone . |
| 25 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 26 | First , fill in the skeleton shape : using a fine brush , draw a V- shape of charcoal eyeshadow from the centre of the eye out to the corner and up into the socket line . |
| 27 | She went back to the corner and across to the nearby pub , where she sat sipping beer , munching a cheese sandwich , and waiting . |
| 28 | Then back to the corner of Blackmoor Drive and then we were told to parade at 10.45 p.m. for night duty . |
| 29 | Let him go back to the corner thinking , ‘ I 'm working with the boss . ’ ’ |
| 30 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |