Example sentences of "up [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 2 | I was almost at the corner of Stuart Street when a car slowed up into the corner of my eye . |
| 3 | The wind whistled up round the corner past the supermarket to Stormy Hill . |
| 4 | The other caught up round the corner and there were two shadowy forms , skimming silently along together , two waverings of light bouncing and jolting to the fore , and two points of red winking at the same level behind , travelling on . |
| 5 | Well if we had some I know there 's two policemen up round the corner here . |
| 6 | This bloke is propped up in the corner of the cab , and blood all over the place . |
| 7 | A police photographer was just finishing up in the corner of the room where Doyle had fallen . |
| 8 | How they did n't see me , I 'll never know , 'cos I was just huddled up in the corner of the alley . |
| 9 | She sits curled up in the corner of the sofa with her feet tucked under her and her half-written letter to her cousin waiting in her lap . |
| 10 | What about up in the corner there there 's er Cos what we 've launched into in the last er nine months very heavily er |
| 11 | They 're all th round there , round that dahlia they 're coming up in the corner over there , and there 's some here , and I think they 're all coming . |
| 12 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 13 | Then , pulling herself upright , she moved across the little sitting room and to the stairs that went straight up from the corner of the room . |
| 14 | At that time there existed other good houses , up to the corner of Cedars Road , which were subsequently demolished to create the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension . |
| 15 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 16 | If we go back up to the corner of Rua de Carreira and Avenida Zarco and go up Rua das Pretas , we come to the Church of São Pedro which was completed in 1598 and then extensively restored in 1747–8 , when the front was altered . |
| 17 | The man hurried down some other steps , crept up to the corner of the wall , and listened . |
| 18 | But today was Monday , the first and the worst day , getting used to the maverick wind , going as slow as possible up to the corner where she had to say goodbye to Izzy and face it all alone . |
| 19 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 20 | Crane was up at the corner to stop the others breaking back to the north . |
| 21 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |
| 22 | ‘ Master Daunbey , ’ Mandeville caught him up at the corner of the gallery . |
| 23 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 24 | You 're not going to see this one at your local Bijou nor are you likely to pick it up at the corner video store . |
| 25 | The wife come in she stays up around the corner and keeps an eye on the on a Saturday . |
| 26 | There is always something soming up around the corner . |