Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 2 | The lamp rests on the manuscript so that enough light will fall on the corner of the sofa in which the man sits in the evening to read his paper . |
| 3 | In fact , they were so well drilled that when I went to C Division — Essex Street — you 'd wait on the corner of a back street and there 'd be a crowd of fellers there and within no time , before you could get near them , they 'd all have disappeared . |
| 4 | I knew no other way to learn technique , so I kept on trying to do what she told me , hoping for the best , hoping that my true voice would appear around the corner . |
| 5 | Could n't really see in the corner whether it was going , so tight . |
| 6 | I can see that , I can see round your eye , oh , God and I can see from the corner like in your head . |
| 7 | By now he was hungry again and anxious to eat while he had the opportunity , but he dare not move from the corner until told to do so . |
| 8 | Suddenly , Bernice heard something move in the corner of the room . |
| 9 | The ploy used to succeed for Jonathan Davies but it went horribly wrong for Parry , whose kick rebounded off Boobyer , leaving Proctor , the Llanelli left wing , to collect and score in the corner . |
| 10 | He heard the Rover roar around the corner , accelerate past , then squeal to a stop and whine back in reverse . |
| 11 | So when we came to record it , if there was a technical breakdown , we would rush to the corner of the set , grab the script and discover where we were . ’ |
| 12 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 13 | Or else you er er er you you know Well I wo n't need that , it can all go in the corner . |
| 14 | We 'd go round the corner and perhaps there 'd be a couple of fellows fighting or drunk . |
| 15 | ‘ Will we go round the corner to Lesson Street ? |
| 16 | I find it so depressing the way sane , reasonably intelligent women do n't feel they can go round the corner to get a pint of milk without their mascara . |
| 17 | And I do n't think if you 've got it out of the Guilds and say now we 've got to have so much for the rent this week I do n't think I would have a Guild very long , because they can go round the corner . |
| 18 | They can go round the corner to the , er I go to a church club er and I pay twenty-five pence and that includes my raffle and a cup of tea you see . |
| 19 | In there , I could have gone in here I reckon I 'll go round the corner do n't matter does it ? |
| 20 | then a percentage of light will go round the corner . |
| 21 | Erm could you go round the corner . |
| 22 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , all right , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll go and stand in the corner in a minute . ’ |
| 24 | I 'll go and stand in the corner I think for being naughty . |
| 25 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 26 | If it is getting difficult you can see what 's going to happen , they 're going to think oh well I wo n't go to town today , I 'll go to the corner shop and manage . |
| 27 | Oh yes I 'd rather go to the corner shop |
| 28 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 29 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |
| 30 | I can hear a car , I think there 's one gon na come round the corner |