Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 2 | A pile of toy animals lies in the corner of the gallery in Telling Tales . |
| 3 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 4 | Henry stands in the corner , too expectant to be rude . |
| 5 | The daughter who lives round the corner that gives most of the support [ PC ] is heading for a breakdown herself , she 's under considerable stress about Mum , but ca n't get cooperation from her brother and sister as to what should happen regarding the mother 's future … |
| 6 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |
| 7 | Yeah he lives round the corner . |
| 8 | My sister Gillian , who lives round the corner , always drops her young son off early in the morning because she works shifts . |
| 9 | One night , early in February 1518 , the three of us were in a tavern called the Chariot , a cosy little ale house which stands on the corner of the Rue des Mineurs near the church of Saint Sulpice . |
| 10 | She only lives around the corner . ’ |
| 11 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 12 | They asked Mrs thomas to let them in , but she held a note up to the window asking them to fetch her daughter , Mr Bellamy 's mother , who lives around the corner . |
| 13 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 14 | If a car suddenly swerves round the corner while I am standing in the middle of the road , the right thing for me to do is to jump for the pavement as spontaneously as a cat . |
| 15 | A black rag flaps across the corner of the eye — ; Blackbird homing from green — ; And this rain is trickling down gulleys , into the splits |
| 16 | A bold , and on first acquaintance awkward , start leads to the corner which is well protected and followed ever more steeply to the crux at the top . |
| 17 | Then , unseen at first , a small but subsequently vociferous crowd of lads out on the piss gathers at the corner of the bar . |
| 18 | So the who Th one goes into there , if it 's a cup shall we say , a cup goes in The opening of that cup goes into the corner of that , |
| 19 | In these days of digital technology and modular electronics , it 's hard to know where to turn when your blue-speaker AC30 begins to issue smoke , your Copicat starts munching recording tape or your beloved Marshall JTM45 just sits and coughs in the corner . |
| 20 | It 's almost as if he paces in the corner of the office waiting to get his hands on me — and he gets jealous when I 'm writing about someone else . ’ |
| 21 | If the gutter goes round the corner , hold the appropriate elbow ( 90° , 100° or 135° ) against the gutter and mark where the gutter will come to inside the fitting . |
| 22 | It is also a pleasure for a nation of country lovers to escape from what is in danger of becoming a land of theme parks and golf courses , to a place in which the earth is actually used for growing things and where the workers have n't been reduced to the statutory rustic who sits in the corner of the saloon bar entertaining the merchant bankers . |
| 23 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 24 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 25 | Jim says we 'll get an electric one because you do n't want a new thing sitting in there and erm it sits in the corner cos I have no room in my units for it . |
| 26 | And goes and sits in the corner . |
| 27 | And if you notice what we 're trying to do is with our er illustration here er is to reflect the the gentility if you like of the Yorkshire hills and Yorkshire dales and we have a logo of our own which appears in the corner of the screen . |
| 28 | He says that a Cavalier appears in the corner , a Shepherd and his dog , hands grip at those who sleep in the bed and a monk walks through the wall ! |
| 29 | Congealed black blood stains in the corner cracks make her look like a baby bird on a diet of blackberries . |
| 30 | It goes straight for a few yards and then bends round the corner into blackness . |