Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 2 | Such rainy visions formed the basis of Morrissey 's songwriting , coupled with a fear that around the corner , the North of England faced even darker days . |
| 3 | He moved down the corridor and around the corner , where two more armed guards stood , alert , against either wall . |
| 4 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
| 5 | A Gordon drive into the circle was deflected just wide of the post by defender Johnny Taylor and from the corner Gordon shot just wide . |
| 6 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
| 7 | Paradise Street , next to Decimus Street and round the corner from the area known as the ‘ Dirty Wick ’ , was a hard place to call home . |
| 8 | erm , so what happens now , is that er I 'm coming off the er , coming off the clutches as before the corner |
| 9 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 10 | It is all too well remembered : the slimy feel of it , hanging limp and unfitting around her as she stands awkward on the threshold of the Clarks ' drawing-room , where the carpets are rolled back , the parquet gleams and in the corner the big hired radiogram is asserting that the lady is a tramp . |
| 11 | Paszti-Bott , a small storefront on An der Linde 25 , sits in interesting isolation just behind the train station and around the corner from the Musikhochschule . |
| 12 | You go past past the library past the ambulance station and round the corner . |
| 13 | In the town , slates and bin-lids took flight and at the corner of Maxstone Villas , a rheumy old man , blue chinned , bent his back against the blast . |
| 14 | Several booksellers commented that their sales of Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Methuen ) had roared ahead at the full price , despite the fact that the book was available at a discount at Dillons down the road or around the corner . |
| 15 | I looked all round — saw that boy — that Dayglo sock bastard — he was running past the end of the cobbly bit by the café and round the corner — and he was carrying my purple stripy barrel-bag . |
| 16 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 17 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
| 18 | Got him buried yet , or cremated and his ashes scattered down Threadneedle Street or round the corner in your wine bar on the floor with the sawdust ? |
| 19 | After a few minutes had passed a loud scream was heard , for it was an electric oven ; and Alf , with singed hair , ran out of the house , down the street and round the corner where he vaulted the Embankment wall , intending to drown himself in the river but forgetting that it was a low tide . |