Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moves up to gain the famous Bower ledge are nothing less than brutal with the corner crack first expanding to chimney-like proportions then closing again to slim finger-crack holds . |
| 2 | The TV high in the corner was tuned to KWEX and the Spanish commentator was getting as frantic as the fighters . |
| 3 | Kelly sitting hunched in the corner of our vast mattress , with burn holes in our beautiful sheets and an overflowing ashtray beside her , looking into one of the half-dozen cigarette packets and suddenly screaming , ‘ You fucking bitch , you 've finished the goddam bloody cigarettes . ’ |
| 4 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
| 5 | ‘ Cuckoo-pint in the corner near the road has increased — eight specimens this year . |
| 6 | I came to jammed into the corner of the work room , squatting , fists clenched , staring up at a ribbon of orange light across the ceiling and a stack of timber beside me . |
| 7 | So what I was doing I was coming into it , I was coming in too fast for the gear , not too fast for the corner , but too fast for the gear . |
| 8 | Are you okay in the corner Karen , enjoying the smells ? |
| 9 | The large body , relaxed and at ease , did n't look at all incongruous crouched in the corner . |
| 10 | Erm there was also a fish and chip shop er that was as well on the corner , that was there years and years and years . |
| 11 | That kind of mystical knowledge that there is something incredibly black around the corner . |
| 12 | He bought it off the town dump ! so new fridge- freezer in the cu which is now free-standing in the corner bought it from Doug |
| 13 | Another lies peacefully asleep in the corner . |
| 14 | But very often you 'll see wa men will wa go horizontal , then it 'll go vertical round the corner , then nearly horizontal or at forty five down the stairs . |
| 15 | Oliver sat alone in the corner , eating old bits of bread . |
| 16 | He stood alone in the corner of the yard feeling more than a little stupid as he stamped up and down to keep warm . |
| 17 | Are they right are they right on the corner of , you know where Midland Bank is ? |
| 18 | Anne was chopping mint at the kitchen table and the sound of the Salvation Army band playing as usual on the corner of the street drifted through the open window . |
| 19 | They , they just do , its only round the corner and I remember last time I said I 'd take you and I did n't . |
| 20 | St Michael can be seen vigorously dragon-killing on the corner . |
| 21 | No-one yet has found a way to halt the ageing process , and until that miracle cream is created and becomes available at the corner shop , the rules for saving your skin are simple : |
| 22 | There 's another one just round the corner . |
| 23 | Then a stranger , who had been sitting unseen round the corner , came up to them . |
| 24 | Lawton had just appeared in what looked like an operating theatre , standing motionless in the corner as though an actual operation was in progress and he was an unwelcome intruder . |
| 25 | So and this doorway has been inserted that close to the corner of the window . |
| 26 | That 's you know any any architect 'll tell you that 's just wild , that 's just ridiculous , it 's very dangerous to put a doorway so close to the corner of a window . |
| 27 | ‘ I felt very tense about it — I had a gut feeling there was something awful around the corner , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Dead in the corner of the library . ’ |
| 29 | She had the paint , two cans , in scarlet and black , ready in the corner of the hall . |
| 30 | She glared at them , and at Luch silent in the corner . |