Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll meet ye in the corner pub . ’ |
| 2 | Jo was some 10 yards behind me near the corner . |
| 3 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 4 | Not the Ka de We on the corner . |
| 5 | ‘ Ye kin — I mean , ye 're fit tae meet me in the corner pub ? ’ |
| 6 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 7 | She was clocking me from the corner of one bleary eye . |
| 8 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 9 | And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again . |
| 10 | ‘ I said ‘ I 'm making a citizen 's arrest ’ and , with the help of Martin and another guy , Peter Ryan , I took them round the corner to Hope Street police station . ’ |
| 11 | Put them round the corner where where I did n't know where they were . |
| 12 | Fronted by Alan Hull , Lindisfarne had some memorable hits like Meet Me on The Corner and Lady Eleanor but Fog on the Tyne was n't a hit until Gazza got his tonsils around it . |
| 13 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 14 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 15 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 16 | And then , she saw him in the corner of the dim room . |
| 17 | She moved away , left him in the corner of the room and stayed where he could see her clearly . |
| 18 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 19 | ‘ Hilary 's not like that , ’ said Rose , struggling with a handful of vowels , but watching him from the corner of her eye as he made his way nonchalantly up the path . |
| 20 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
| 21 | She arranged her armful of books on the shelf Thérèse had cleared for her in the corner above the camp-bed . |
| 22 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 23 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 24 | You hear him round the corner , |
| 25 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
| 26 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 27 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 28 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 29 | I know I saw her on the corner there |
| 30 | When she was leaving , John reappeared and he and Sarah accompanied her to the corner of Magdalen Street . |