Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | An echo : Once in fourth grade , he was sent to stand in the corner , next to the blackboard ; whilst there , he powdered his face with white chalk and when he turned around he was a clown , beaming a smile at the class like The Joker in Batman . |
| 2 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 3 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 4 | Naturally , I heard the stories and one morning saw a bloody trail of gore where the wolves had attacked and dragged away an old beggar woman who used to squat on the corner of the Rue St Jacques . |
| 5 | But with seconds remaining Leicester captain Steve Walsh played a ball up to Russell — introduced 11 minutes earlier — and he ran clear to shoot into the corner of the net . |
| 6 | The two men came face-to-face in a New York hotel and Maloney said Lewis came close to ‘ laying out ’ the world champion adding : ‘ Bowe had to duck round the corner . ’ |
| 7 | Shoreline also have a popular variation on the castle theme ( illustrated ) designed to fit into the corner of the tank and mask an uplift ( or mask and protect a heaterstat ) . |
| 8 | Over by the window there was a wardrobe that had been built to fit into the corner , tall and heavy , mirror-fronted with small brass teardrop handles . |
| 9 | The one who used to walk round the corner and get round that corner and give it all that . |
| 10 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 11 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 12 | We continued to stare at the corner of the field for some time , expecting to see some movement . |
| 13 | Take time to look at the corner of the Hospital wall where stands a memorial to King Edward VII surmounted by a bronze of St. George and the Dragon by the eminent sculptor Sir George Frampton . |
| 14 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 15 | You mean you ca n't see it to put round the corner here like this ? |
| 16 | Suzie has lit the fire , and has set one small light to glow in the corner of the room . |
| 17 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 18 | You have only to think of the situation in which a mother is terrified of thunder and panics whenever she hears it , rushing to close the curtains and to cower in the corner of the room . |
| 19 | Her husband only had one leg , and he used to sit in the corner all the time and wave his stick at you if he thought you were pinching anything . |
| 20 | Twenty should be alright and just half an inch to go round the corner . |
| 21 | Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision . |
| 22 | The Collector 's eye came to rest on the corner where Miriam lay ; she was too weak to help Dr McNab now , but although she could no longer be of any service to the ailing figures who lay nearby , she had refused to let the Collector move her mattress up to the dais where the air was better and where cholera clouds would be less likely to hang ( if such things existed , which of course they had been proved not to by Dr McNab , but all the same … ) . |
| 23 | We never allowed two or three to gather on the corner . |
| 24 | B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner . |
| 25 | And 14 minutes later , the cool Marwood foxed Wigan by switching the ball to the blindside where winger Paul Penrice evaded Martin Offiah to score in the corner . |
| 26 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |
| 27 | On the , on the , on the corner of the street under the lamppost , we 'd , a family named used to live on the corner of Street and Street I lived in that house , but they used to just congregate on the , on the street corners . |
| 28 | Wigan 's hopes of a heroic fightback were shattered two minutes after the break when Lyon , a £90,000 buy from Warrington , latched on to Gus O'Donnell 's grubber kick to score at the corner . |
| 29 | It is useful to sit at the corner of a small table ( a card table is excellent ) whilst your discussion partner sits at the opposite comer — ensuring a one-to-one contact and leaving space between you . |
| 30 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |