Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 2 | He suffers from a ‘ sense of injured merit ’ , and like a spoiled child , sulking in the corner , he sulks in Hell and vows always to defy good for the sake of evil , in the vain hope of getting his own back . |
| 3 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 4 | But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner . |
| 5 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 6 | The two hedgers and ditchers were flat out and snoring in the corner pew . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm perfectly capable of walking round the corner on my own . ’ |
| 8 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 9 | I left right , right , I ran off I jumped out the car because I heard them driving round the corner |
| 10 | Walking around the corner is a wilder area , which is enclosed by trellis made of stout poles and hung with a most bewildering variety of clematis . |
| 11 | I imagine I stand just inside the door for a few moments , looking into the corner of the room in a companionable way . |
| 12 | Though before she could go round the side of the house to meet him , she saw that he had accidentally let Azor out too , for bounding round the corner , as he had one time before , came Ven 's Dobermann . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're living round the corner in the council yard . |
| 14 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 15 | Seeing his friend cowering in the corner of his cage at the mercy of the teachers , he felt the tears swell up in his eyes . |
| 16 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 17 | Oliver ate eagerly , his eyes wandering to the corner of the room where there was a large , square object covered with a piece of sacking . |
| 18 | Resting against the corner of the building was a large triangular boulder . |
| 19 | Leading off the corner of the square , in Prokopská Street is a house ( 3/625 ) whose strange apsidal shape reveals its origins as a church . |
| 20 | He pointed down a street leading off the corner of the square where they were sitting . |
| 21 | And then Eric Young casually idling towards the corner flag has a clearance against Simpson , Johnson the loose ball against the post . |
| 22 | All I can say is that someone hit me at about 40 or 50mph up the back as I was turning into the corner . |
| 23 | We 're going round the corner to the egg man . |
| 24 | But you know d' you remember me going round the corner and seeing that erm |
| 25 | No , they 're going round the corner . |
| 26 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |
| 27 | He kept going round the corner . |
| 28 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 29 | It 's quite likely she calls a taxicab every time and has it waiting round the corner out of sight . |
| 30 | He was back at seven o'clock , waiting round the corner from the shop . |