Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought he was going to read it , but instead he tore a piece off the corner . |
| 2 | Where there is a window on either side of a corner , again the aim is to unify them . |
| 3 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 4 | ‘ Just after I left Joe , this side of the corner of Bal Lane . |
| 5 | He turned well , however , and dived to save at the expense of a corner . |
| 6 | A minute later a low shot from RUC top scorer Love was saved by the keeper White at the expense of a corner . |
| 7 | The enclosed cab is covered in lightly-grained black Tolex with no corner pieces , while the front , which angles gently back towards the top , is more rock'n'roll than it looks . |
| 8 | ‘ I can do without that , ’ replied the stranger brusquely , squeezing his bulk into the corner . |
| 9 | They had thrown the bear into the corner of the room . |
| 10 | With direct reference to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and in response to a ‘ demand ’ for more radical action which he had read in a newspaper , Hitler made clear that he had at the time to proceed tactically and in stages , but that his strategy was to manoeuvre his enemy into a corner before destroying him completely . |
| 11 | Standing alone in this pool of moonlight , he puts his thumb and forefinger into the corners of his mouth and , staring out across the houses and the fields and the river valley to the stark moonlit mountains , whistles long and loud into the night . |
| 12 | Two men grabbed a battered old rocking horse from the corner , and rushed it towards Ilse . |
| 13 | Slatter was standing over a youth and his girlfriend in the corner . |
| 14 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 15 | ‘ Parked his car round the corner and walked straight into our arms . ’ |
| 16 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 17 | Inside , Ace folded one piece of plastic explosive round the corner that led into the anteroom , and placed the other above the altar . |
| 18 | Some of the others protested at being separated from their belongings , but a Brazilian Corporal in the corner hit two people in the stomach and things moved fast after that . |
| 19 | They found a wooden bench seat in a corner and squeezed into it with their drinks — Edward had a pint of bitter and Sally a Babycham in a pretty glass decorated with a dancing fawn in a blue neck-bow . |
| 20 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 21 | In the Red Anchor , he found a quiet seat in a corner . |
| 22 | In ten angular jerks and a trip Ranald rose from his seat in the corner by Luch to open the door for Lady Bridhe to leave . |
| 23 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
| 24 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 25 | The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front . |
| 26 | He has too , the little bastard , ’ she added , after a short , vain , search in the corners . |
| 27 | We took our places side by side in a corner with the bare boards of the table stretching away into the distance , " I told you you 'd get a real good meal , did n't I , Well , here it is . " |
| 28 | Granddad in the corner . |
| 29 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 30 | Chris trailed back , dragging his bat in disgust , but loudly clapped by his team and the little group of parents around the scorer 's shack in the corner of the field . |