Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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1 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
2 | The bed , tucked in under the corner where the roof sloped down , looked small and safe . |
3 | ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen . |
4 | No no they come down into the corner of the field here in Place . |
5 | With the head on its side make a series of cuts straight in with the corner chisel along the curve of the cheek , and cut away the waste on the neck side of the line . |
6 | Machine stitch 3cm in from the corner at each end . |
7 | And there , on the third step , upside down in the corner by the wall , was Bunty 's other sandal — dainty lacy white straps with the arched instep and the two-inch heel hanging half off . |
8 | Ireland were quick to respond , scrum-half Matchett breaking from a scrum to touch down in the corner . |
9 | Gentle accepted the wine , and sat down in the corner of the ill-sprung couch , where it was easiest to ignore the demands of the screen . |
10 | One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths . |
11 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
12 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
13 | Sikes laid her down in the corner , as surprised as Fagin at her anger . |
14 | Then he went back to lie down in the corner of the cell . |
15 | Now right down in the corner , bearing in mind my parents ' garden shall we say is there and the field height is there |
16 | Sit down in the corner nice breakfast . |
17 | I know which it is but it 's somewhere down in the corner where your brother used to live that corner down there Harry somewhere down there . |
18 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
19 | Miss Jarman came into the middle of the kitchen for a closer look at Jess , then suddenly slapping her hand down on the corner of the big floury table said : ‘ What d' you say to letting me pay whatever she owes ? |
20 | He desperately wanted to show Becky how much he appreciated all she had done , and settled for bouncing up and down on the corner of the bed |
21 | Down , down on the corner of erm |
22 | It 'll be in city whe er th to there is a hairdre all there is is one further down on the corner of Parkin Street . |
23 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
24 | They walked side by side , not touching , down to the corner where Steep Street began . |
25 | I cleaned up the spill and walked down to the corner shop with my grocery list and three ten-bob notes to pay off last week 's ‘ strap ’ . |
26 | Give me my morning 's gentle stroll down to the corner paper shop , my afternoon 's lazy snooker match at the village club with a glass of you know what on the side-table , and my evening 's friendly ( is there any such thing ? ) solo or bridge games . |
27 | Now , just a shabby backwater in Belsize Park , but a nice , quiet area where a woman alone might walk down to the corner shop at midnight in safety and people minded their own business . |
28 | The fellow pointed down to the corner of the Mercery and Lawrence Street . |
29 | With Mike Taylor in the middle and Bill Brooker as last man , the team finally managed to traverse in to the corner from what is now Titan 's Wall . |
30 | I asked about you down at the corner , the shop there . |