Example sentences of "[noun sg] on the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rapid gear change gave them speed on the corner and he sat bent over the wheel , concentrating fiercely on the road through the sheets of rain . |
| 2 | Dr Hendron 's remarks came in the wake of the murder of Cairnshill Road man Sean Hughes as he worked in Jon David 's hairdressing salon on the corner of the Falls and the Donegall Road at 3.50pm on Tuesday . |
| 3 | But if she could n't have another baby the newsagent on the corner wanted someone in the mornings . |
| 4 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 5 | She went on , past the blacksmith 's , past the corrugated-iron public lavatory on the corner , plastered with faded posters that peeled and flapped , across the road , through the stepped gap between two old houses whose lath and plaster upper storeys almost touched overhead , and into the little square . |
| 6 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 7 | no , about three month 's , just decided to run then the cafe on the corner to cof coffee cavern , well you , you can drop in have a , like you used to have in |
| 8 | Hannen Swaffer — revered almost as the Bernard Shaw of left-wing journalism — used to blow in and write his piece on the corner of someone else 's desk . |
| 9 | The taxi swerved out of the Champs Elysées , down the Avenue George-V and came to a sudden halt on the corner . |
| 10 | The tram back to Chelsea seemed to take for ever , but at last it came to a halt on the corner of Chelsea Terrace . |
| 11 | McLeish repressed a grin and bustled into the big noisy pub on the corner , receiving an instant acknowledgement from one of the bartenders , who all knew any member of the C1 hierarchy . |
| 12 | A drunk sat on the step of the pub on the corner , his head in his hands . |
| 13 | Just a tired row of shops opposite and a seedy-looking pub on the corner and a disused laundry with boarded-up windows and a For Sale notice . |
| 14 | Her eyes were drawn by the impenetrable blackness of the alleys between the parade of houses opposite , a clutch of raucous youths tumbling out of a Victorian plastic pub on the corner and a drunk dressed in a greasy jacket sitting on a bench set back from the road . |
| 15 | ‘ But I believe the pub on the corner 's quite good . ’ |
| 16 | Meet you at the pub on the corner , at nine ? ’ |
| 17 | He used to know , there 's a pub on the corner is n't there ? |
| 18 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 19 | Continuing with the estate map , at Halling Bottom on the corner of Vicarage Road , there stands one house , this was the house known as Forge Cottage which was demolished after the last war . |
| 20 | The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule . |
| 21 | Thanks to the connections made by William Agnew amongst Glasgow 's high society , the Bazaar was extremely successful and raised more than enough to purchase a prime site on the corner of West Regent Street and West Campbell Street . |
| 22 | The shop on the corner sells string — I know cos I seen it — so I ask if I should go and buy some . |
| 23 | Over to the right was the main street , with a grocer 's shop on the corner and a straggle of grey houses . |
| 24 | ‘ You usually go to the shop on the corner after school , for some chewing gum … ’ |
| 25 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 26 | People gathered in groups outside the burger place ; others went to buy cigarettes from the Indian shop on the corner and then stood at the bus stop . |
| 27 | To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma . |
| 28 | It was one of the rituals of this lonely spinster 's life that every day she would take her chihuahua to the shop on the corner and back again . |
| 29 | Mrs. Dow worked as an assistant in the newsagent 's shop on the corner of the street opposite Ezra 's premises . |
| 30 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |