Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges that the small corner shops which have been trading on Sundays — in many cases , outside the Shops Act 1950 — provide a useful service to some people in our communities . |
| 2 | Erm you , you mentioned that the local corner shop sold virtually everything . |
| 3 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 4 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 5 | For any placement of the feeders , the closest wall was at a distance of at least 1.05m and the closest corner 1.48m. b And c , representative paths on training trials . |
| 6 | The rear body capping is drilled off and the rear corner capping also . |
| 7 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 8 | Truly we are a nation of shopkeepers , and the tiny corner shop at that . |
| 9 | To hold a large piping bag , grip it so that your fingers are curled over the front of the bag and the folded corner twisted between your thumb and index finger . |
| 10 | I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit . |
| 11 | In the south of England , Dorset , Hampshire and Surrey were affected to some extent — again much more in some parts than others — but the south-eastern corner of England owes little or nothing to the enclosure commissioners . |