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
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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 .
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