Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have found that it is good to be factual and helpful on these occasions and that always one or two who live opposite , or round the corner or who know the building have been drawn in . |
| 2 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
| 3 | Got him buried yet , or cremated and his ashes scattered down Threadneedle Street or round the corner in your wine bar on the floor with the sawdust ? |
| 4 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 5 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 6 | The driver of the bus , meanwhile , cheerfully informs us , as we pass the theatre where Malcolm X was assassinated , that round the corner ‘ there 's a good hospital you can go to if you ever get shot ’ . |
| 7 | We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away . |
| 8 | Such rainy visions formed the basis of Morrissey 's songwriting , coupled with a fear that around the corner , the North of England faced even darker days . |
| 9 | Two trains come in simultaneously and Hancock simply scampers through one and into the corner seat of the other , while the commuters are struggling to enter . |
| 10 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 11 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
| 12 | I looked all round — saw that boy — that Dayglo sock bastard — he was running past the end of the cobbly bit by the café and round the corner — and he was carrying my purple stripy barrel-bag . |
| 13 | There is a small shop flanked by brick cottages with pantiled roofs , and round the corner near the lane leading to the neighbouring hamlet of Uncleby is the now disused blacksmith 's forge , once so busy in the days of working horses . |
| 14 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
| 15 | After a few minutes had passed a loud scream was heard , for it was an electric oven ; and Alf , with singed hair , ran out of the house , down the street and round the corner where he vaulted the Embankment wall , intending to drown himself in the river but forgetting that it was a low tide . |
| 16 | Paradise Street , next to Decimus Street and round the corner from the area known as the ‘ Dirty Wick ’ , was a hard place to call home . |
| 17 | I motion him away and he glides the car twenty yards forward and round the corner . |
| 18 | Imagine then you 're out , you 're in Wolverhampton , and you 're about to cross the street , and round the corner comes a big lorry . |
| 19 | Out of Decimus Street , and round the corner into Paradise Street , and immediately he was back in his childhood , eight years old and with itchy feet . |
| 20 | You go past past the library past the ambulance station and round the corner . |
| 21 | A Gordon drive into the circle was deflected just wide of the post by defender Johnny Taylor and from the corner Gordon shot just wide . |
| 22 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 23 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 24 | But being a rebel at heart he always modelled the battleships on the Potemkin , and in the corner of every panel he painted a little red devil with a pitchfork and a knowing grin . |
| 25 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 26 | Each cage was about the size of a wire basket for office mail , and in the corner of every one was a pellet hopper and an inverted water bottle . |
| 27 | There were his carpenter 's bench and his tools and his lathe , and in the corner was the dynamo that worked it . |
| 28 | It is all too well remembered : the slimy feel of it , hanging limp and unfitting around her as she stands awkward on the threshold of the Clarks ' drawing-room , where the carpets are rolled back , the parquet gleams and in the corner the big hired radiogram is asserting that the lady is a tramp . |
| 29 | ( Andrew speaks of Rhodes as if he might walk through the door ; and in the corner of the living-room hangs a pencil portrait , autographed , of ‘ The Founder ’ . ) |
| 30 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |