Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the corner " in BNC.

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1 Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony .
2 ‘ Just after I left Joe , this side of the corner of Bal Lane .
3 A shallow corner in the arête offers a more direct 5c start , and for the technically proficient the hairline crack running straight into the base of the corner can be climbed at 6a .
4 At first Roger , warmed by his work , confidence boosted by a bombproof hex in the base of the corner , was still looking optimistically to the crux , and seemed surprised by my shaken croaks of retreat .
5 You put them in the sort of the corner , Mr 's got one , you extend your telly .
6 Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below .
7 From the top of the corner and committing sequence of moves along a slanting crack hopefully gains the final airy arête .
8 Holding the tile hard against a metal vice , I hit the corner with a small hammer , knocking off the back of the corner ( about ¾in at a time ) .
9 However , he looked rather bemused when Mr Bell started ad-libbing that if the Sunday Times wanted to pen a profile of the self-styled King of the Corner Shop then ‘ for God 's sake get a better picture of me than The Northern Echo is using . ’
10 But it literally sort of burnt the edge of the corner !
11 It was the end of the contest , but not the end of the game because almost at once a poor kick out of defence by Gloucester outside-half Matthews gave Webb and Guscott the chance to give Fallon his second sight of the corner flag .
12 Many stores were as small as 500 sq ft — about the size of the corner shops which they still resembled — but as the big boys got bigger the small shops went to the wall .
13 Oh yes Paul they were sitting like at the end of the corner there 's been
14 Er in in the in the vicinity of the corner that I 've marked with a star .
15 That 's why I try and stay away from the throttle in the middle of the corner when you 've got max pressure on the tyres .
16 ‘ I was on about 12,000 revs and tried to bring the wheel back in at the apex of the corner , ’ James said , ‘ but it was too far gone and that was it .
17 I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge .
18 At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique .
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