Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing a thermometer gently into the corner of his swollen mouth , she continued chattering away brightly to him . |
| 2 | The implicature , derived from the assumption that speaker B is adhering to the Cooperative Principle , is that the garage is not only round the corner , but also will be open and selling petrol . |
| 3 | Then get the whole lot into their coats ready to march off to school , which was only round the corner . |
| 4 | They just do it 's only round the corner and I remember last time I said I 'd take you and I did n't . |
| 5 | It 's only round the corner from her is n't it mum ? |
| 6 | Your dentist is only round the corner from where you work though is n't it ? |
| 7 | Yeah , it 's only round the corner , you can park right . |
| 8 | Kāli and Hārkini were huddled together in the corner of the room where sunlight flooded through the open doorway . |
| 9 | She cast a steely glance in the direction of the wardens , who clustered together in the corner watching the noisy lot of prisoners and their visitors , and advised me against looking in my bag . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to order some soup or something , then we 'll get our heads together in the corner . |
| 11 | They 're only stapled together in the corner are n't they ? |
| 12 | ‘ Honour , ’ repeated Kit , a smile dancing mischievously in the corner of his lips , giving him for a moment the look of a sprite , a red-gold Puck no stranger to mischief . |
| 13 | She leaned over him and kissed him gently on the corner of his mouth . |
| 14 | I live literally on the corner as you go out . |
| 15 | Yes , you mean literally on the corner ? |
| 16 | Cos you 're nearly , you know , more or less on the corner there anyway are n't you ? |
| 17 | Bending forward , she trailed her mouth delicately across the bridge of his nose to his cheek , then down to hover tantalisingly at the corner of his mouth . |
| 18 | Next morning Lucy found herself seated alone at the corner table , and when Jean brought her breakfast she learnt that Silas and Matt had left earlier to help the farm manager move cattle into different fields . |
| 19 | Alternatively and more excitingly , perhaps around the corner there lurks a tenth explanation — the true one at last . |
| 20 | If the Doors comparisons are to be believed — which they are not — success is only around the corner if the amount of hype for Oliver Stone 's movie is anything to go by . |
| 21 | For the tourist at heart visit Madam Tussauds or the Planetarium ( ideal for wet weather ) which are literally around the corner . |
| 22 | She knocked her knee painfully against the corner of the table as she stood . |
| 23 | Ronald Koeman converted that penalty , then another gloriously won by Julio Salinas when , tiring of the professional duty to let seconds tick away near the corner flag , he burst clear of his attendant , evaded one challenge along the byline , and fell under a second . |
| 24 | He was leaning comfortably into the corner of his seat reading the unmistakable pages of the London Financial Times . |
| 25 | The coin bounced , spun and rolled away into the corner . |
| 26 | As a sideline , to fill in time when the shop was devoid of customers , Tommy repaired umbrellas on a bench tucked away in the corner . |
| 27 | On top of this the only action Rick had seen was on his furthest rod , away in the corner by the dam out-flow away from our movements . |
| 28 | Well I found an old brown paper parcel tucked right away in the corner where the noise was a- coming from , but I could n't find what was making the noise , I opened the parcel and found this old kettle . |
| 29 | And then today when I was passing it was just munching away in the corner , you know . |
| 30 | Jack Foley began , but then he saw the car that had been pulled away from the corner where it had crashed . |