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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Grabbing the pile of cloth money-bags from the corner of the desk , he turned them upside down one by one .
4 She heard muffled groans from the corner of the room by the television .
5 A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud .
6 clipped them off and the wind 's blown the flowers from the corner .
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