Example sentences of "[v-ing] at the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I can be wrong , ’ said Penry , a pulse throbbing at the corner of his mouth . |
| 2 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 3 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 4 | It was a substantial house standing at the corner of a tree-lined street in an Irish neighbourhood of the city . |
| 5 | Standing at the corner of May Street and East Bridge Street it was built by JC Bretland and completed in 1896 . |
| 6 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 7 | ( They 're sitting at the corner of a teashop table , say . ) |
| 8 | When she went to the dining-room she was disappointed to find only Matt sitting at the corner table , while of Silas there was no sign . |
| 9 | The ground radio had reports of a gang shooting at the corner of La Brea and Rodeo , and Provenzano dipped the chopper to the west and flew at 130 mph to reach the site . |
| 10 | About a hundred and fifty yards away I could just make out three figures crossing at the corner of the field and approaching the road in our direction . |