Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A glance at the corner where the copper stood , then at the doorway behind me , where the light fell on the gleaming worktops and new cupboards . |
| 2 | He had a white trace of toothpaste at the corner of his mouth . |
| 3 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
| 4 | The men saw the blood at the corner of his mouth . |
| 5 | Not in those houses but there was a , an off-licence at the corner of Street , do you know where Street is ? |
| 6 | On the Pennyfarthing Street corner was James Garage which had been a Job Masters with a showroom at the corner . |
| 7 | As well as Lewis and Barnett there was Christine , Barnett 's secretary , who had a voice as hard as her nail varnish , and who made Tim run errands for her , fetching bacon rolls from the cafe at the corner , buying stamps or pints of milk . |
| 8 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 9 | By a strange twist of fate , the first Chilean to welcome Valenzuela to his new home in France was Castro , a ‘ Mirista ’ who was captured in broad daylight and stripped to his underwear back in December 1974 , while Valenzuela stood guard at the corner . |
| 10 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 11 | His shirt was n't clean and he had the beginnings of a pimple at the corner of his mouth and another about to burst above the knot of his cravat . |
| 12 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 13 | He saw the ice at the corner of the window panes , the hard blueness of the sky was not a summer colour . |
| 14 | ‘ That the accident at the corner of … resolved … culprit apprehended … said Herr Nordern cleared of all suspicion … and etc. , and etc. , and etc. , And that 's that , ’ Marx said unemotionally as he folded the form and slid it back into the envelope . |
| 15 | She looked for sarcasm in his expression and spotted it , just for an instant , hidden in the slight curve at the corner of his mouth . |
| 16 | ‘ Lloyd George is right ! ’ he yelled from his cart at the corner of the Main Street . |
| 17 | Then winger Crawford Dobbin ran half the length of the pitch for the final score at the corner flag . |
| 18 | Every morning I went to buy a baguette at Bluot 's boulangerie at the corner of the road . |
| 19 | Tom was standing on the stone steps of the shop at the corner , waiting for him . |
| 20 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 21 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 22 | No aside the wee shop at the corner of Street . |
| 23 | N.Z. A Weak Heart : Roddie on his bike in the evening , with his hands in his pockets , doing marvels by that dark tree at the corner of May Street . |
| 24 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 25 | Juliet visualised him standing in Sister 's office , his soft brown eyes concerned and tender , his curly brown hair a bit ruffled , a smile at the corner of his mouth . |
| 26 | For example the Oak at the corner of the restaurant is thought to be more than 600 years old . |
| 27 | The policeman at the corner was looking interested . |
| 28 | She dismissed the taxi at the corner of Dorchester Terrace , thinking that the sight of it might alarm her sister . |
| 29 | St Nicholas Cathedral at the corner of our square is a great deep cavern of dusky toned Baroque , the light upheld by the dark shadows which flow in elegant curliques and whisps around the ornate ceiling , along pillars and walls emblazoned with the richness of colour that only an intensely , at times intellectually , emotional and predominantly Catholic country could produce . |
| 30 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |