Example sentences of "it [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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1 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
2 | My hand holding the receiver was shaking ; I pressed it against the corner of a door to stabilize it . |
3 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
4 | The ball fell clear and Benjamin put it into the corner of the net from 15 yards . |
5 | He put her down on the bed , and , removing the crutch from her nerveless hand , tossed it into the corner , before sitting beside her . |
6 | It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm |
7 | Moxie folded the quilt and put it in the corner where the bed had been . |
8 | Angrily she pulled the sheet from the bed and thrust it in the corner of the room in a tight heap . |
9 | After she 'd completed her delivery round of the dressing rooms , Lucy came back into the department , took off her coat and threw it in the corner , and then threw herself onto one of the available chairs with an equal lack of ceremony . |
10 | Go and do it in the corner , ’ said one Glasgow mother to her child , in a story that has passed into the folklore of the Second World War . |
11 | You 've seen it in the corner of the office . |
12 | She dressed hurriedly , made herself a snack , took the bike and wheeled it round the corner of the cottage into the front garden . |
13 | ‘ There must be some method of edging it round the corner , ’ said Ludens . |
14 | I parked Armstrong on Soho Square and hoofed it round the corner into Dean Street , keeping an eye out for the fly-posters to see if anyone interesting was playing in the vicinity . |
15 | Stockton North MP Frank Cook said : ‘ You can picture the scene : a consultant walks into a care unit with five or six patients struggling , fighting for their lives and says : ‘ Hands up those who have 15 breaths left in them to make it round the corner . ’ |
16 | Eh yeah Rick 's er , Rick 's car broke down you know and , and van broke down and somebody he , he , he lived in Clifton and worked at Radcliff on Trend and somebody says to him oh you can borrow our car it was a Reliant Regal , eh he said oh god , you know , I 'll have to park it round the corner , and he got out , did n't go into work , you know go to work every day where erm |
17 | Is it round the corner ? |
18 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
19 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
20 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
21 | They learned it on the corner |