Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 2 | The bed , tucked in under the corner where the roof sloped down , looked small and safe . |
| 3 | Pushing a thermometer gently into the corner of his swollen mouth , she continued chattering away brightly to him . |
| 4 | ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen . |
| 5 | No no they come down into the corner of the field here in Place . |
| 6 | With the head on its side make a series of cuts straight in with the corner chisel along the curve of the cheek , and cut away the waste on the neck side of the line . |
| 7 | The implicature , derived from the assumption that speaker B is adhering to the Cooperative Principle , is that the garage is not only round the corner , but also will be open and selling petrol . |
| 8 | Then get the whole lot into their coats ready to march off to school , which was only round the corner . |
| 9 | They just do it 's only round the corner and I remember last time I said I 'd take you and I did n't . |
| 10 | It 's only round the corner from her is n't it mum ? |
| 11 | Your dentist is only round the corner from where you work though is n't it ? |
| 12 | Yeah , it 's only round the corner , you can park right . |
| 13 | Machine stitch 3cm in from the corner at each end . |
| 14 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
| 15 | Ireland were quick to respond , scrum-half Matchett breaking from a scrum to touch down in the corner . |
| 16 | Gentle accepted the wine , and sat down in the corner of the ill-sprung couch , where it was easiest to ignore the demands of the screen . |
| 17 | One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths . |
| 18 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 19 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 20 | Sikes laid her down in the corner , as surprised as Fagin at her anger . |
| 21 | Then he went back to lie down in the corner of the cell . |
| 22 | Now right down in the corner , bearing in mind my parents ' garden shall we say is there and the field height is there |
| 23 | Sit down in the corner nice breakfast . |
| 24 | I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there . |
| 25 | Kāli and Hārkini were huddled together in the corner of the room where sunlight flooded through the open doorway . |
| 26 | She cast a steely glance in the direction of the wardens , who clustered together in the corner watching the noisy lot of prisoners and their visitors , and advised me against looking in my bag . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to order some soup or something , then we 'll get our heads together in the corner . |
| 28 | They 're only stapled together in the corner are n't they ? |
| 29 | ‘ Honour , ’ repeated Kit , a smile dancing mischievously in the corner of his lips , giving him for a moment the look of a sprite , a red-gold Puck no stranger to mischief . |
| 30 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |