Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine mopped Louis 's eyes with the corner of his napkin . |
| 2 | Installed by E. Rand and Sons ( Engineers ) Ltd , of Wetherden , near Stowmarket , in 1984 , it comprises 2 x 185 ft spans plus 5 x 170 ft spans with the corner system which automatically follows a buried guidance cable extending a further 256ft . |
| 3 | I stood the bottle on the tiled mantel and continued my chores , rewarding myself with a coffee and a stolen Woodbine in front of the newly-made fire , before fetching the groceries from the corner shop . |
| 4 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 5 | We literally started building the cars in the corner of the workshop . ’ |
| 6 | Afterwards , I sat on his lap while he drank some of that funny-smelling liquid and stared at the moving pictures in the corner . |
| 7 | Nor the neighbours , nor the postman and the milkman , nor the shopkeepers in the run of shops round the corner . |
| 8 | We 're all safe here , and no one is going to hurt you … least of all these gentlemen in the corner . ’ |
| 9 | She bustled around , chucking her tights in the corner and putting on old ballet leggings and socks with holes in to keep warm . |
| 10 | The old woman was crouched like a bundle of rags in the corner of the hut and Simon was standing in the open doorway . |
| 11 | A heap of rags in the corner suddenly stirred and came to life and Taplow , loaded with chains , got to his feet . |
| 12 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 13 | The imposition of heavy death duties payable in the 1930's , led to the sale of the original nursery land , on which three blocks of flats were built — Beverley , Belgrave and Beaumont Courts , but the little parade of shops on the corner of Walpole Gardens , just across the road from the old nursery , is still named Fromow 's Corner . |
| 14 | That 's not too bad actually except the day the young men loaded it back onto the trailer when we 'd finished and it was one of these corners , and I happened to be muggins on the corner where that lever was , and he had n't tied it , it was only in the ratchet , you know , he should have tied it of course . |
| 15 | Seeing the betraying movement , his hand slid down to close lightly around her throat ; then he touched his lips to the corner of her mouth with delicate precision before planting a series of soft baby kisses along the clean line of her jaw . |
| 16 | From the loudspeakers on the corner pillars came a selection of popular songs by Gracie Fields . |
| 17 | There 's a man cooking chestnuts on the corner and I stop and warm my hands over the fire and look at the Christmas tree . |
| 18 | Or are we just creatures of our time , trapped by our failure to see the solutions around the corner of our life-span ? |
| 19 | When Nicolae Ceauşescu first arrived in the city , Bucharest contained a dazzling array of buildings of all styles : examples of its older Balkan heritage could be found side by side with grandiose business palaces in the style of Central Europe 's Griinderjahre of the 1870s , with Art Deco and Cubist designs around the corner . |
| 20 | The BEC now occupies its own offices around the corner in Hope Street . |
| 21 | The archers face inwards , shooting across the composition into the opposite angle where the stricken victim lies , his feet towards the corner . |
| 22 | She ejected the clip and threw it amongst a pile of discarded wooden crates in the corner of the shed , then buried the rifle under a mound of rubble in the pockmarked skip . |
| 23 | ‘ Lives round the corner in Marlowe Road . ’ |
| 24 | It was well for Breeze that all the holidays she had spent in St Petrock 's had accustomed her to invalids — but even so , she had never seen anybody who looked as ill as the old , old man who lay propped up on cushions in the corner facing the engine . |
| 25 | The old building , we proposed , should be adapted to create a mixture of shopping and fast food establishments , with restaurants and pubs in the corner pavilions on the river . |
| 26 | He 'll just say prayers in the corner , you know ! |
| 27 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 28 | I screwed up my results paper and threw it on the Pavement beside someone 's half-eaten chips on the corner . |
| 29 | Thus Old Den left the scene of his many triumphs on the shoulders of his son and his friends , leaving behind him on the bar fond memories of countless great nights of debates , discussion and song , echoed now in the keening of the women from their seats in the corner . |
| 30 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |