Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time , as she looked up , specks of gritty plaster landed in her eyes and , putting her broom down for a moment , she dabbed them with the corner of her shawl . |
| 2 | Roxie drew herself into the corner as if she wanted to get as far away from them as she could . |
| 3 | It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm |
| 4 | They found it on the corner of Bread Street , a narrow , two-storeyed tenement with a shop below and living quarters above . |
| 5 | Put them round the corner where where I did n't know where they were . |
| 6 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 7 | I directed him to the corner where I knew the compost heap was . |
| 8 | Moxie folded the quilt and put it in the corner where the bed had been . |
| 9 | You 've seen it in the corner of the office . |
| 10 | Fronted by Alan Hull , Lindisfarne had some memorable hits like Meet Me on The Corner and Lady Eleanor but Fog on the Tyne was n't a hit until Gazza got his tonsils around it . |
| 11 | I bet you 've got one round the corner somewhere . ’ |
| 12 | With all her strength , she forced herself to stand and threw herself around the corner . |
| 13 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 14 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She could n't see anything in the corner . |
| 17 | Then we got one round the corner in the patio area . |
| 18 | ‘ Ye kin — I mean , ye 're fit tae meet me in the corner pub ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll meet ye in the corner pub . ’ |
| 20 | You hear him round the corner , |
| 21 | My hand holding the receiver was shaking ; I pressed it against the corner of a door to stabilize it . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | He could hear nothing except the corner of the tin roof blowing . |
| 24 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 25 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | ‘ I said ‘ I 'm making a citizen 's arrest ’ and , with the help of Martin and another guy , Peter Ryan , I took them round the corner to Hope Street police station . ’ |
| 28 | I know I saw her on the corner there |
| 29 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 30 | And then , she saw him in the corner of the dim room . |