Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sat leaning against the white-painted wall in a corner diagonally opposite Lee . |
| 2 | And then : ‘ I possess a stone head by Modigliani which I would not part with for a hundred pounds even at this crisis : and I routed out this head from a corner sacred to the rubbish of centuries and was called stupid for my pains in taking it away . |
| 3 | In answer to Sophie 's careful nod , he went on , ‘ My little girl and her friend found this creature in a corner of my yard . |
| 4 | All the bedrooms are en suite , and are equipped with colour TV , one has a four-poster bed , and the spacious master bedroom has a luxurious bathroom with a corner bath . |
| 5 | Where there is a window on either side of a corner , again the aim is to unify them . |
| 6 | From the historian 's point of view , it provides valuable evidence about a corner of the Touraine crucial to Angevin domination but very difficult to hold , and about the resources and stratagems open to a second-rank aristocratic family determined to maximize its assets . |
| 7 | Esther Breuer might well have been expected to approve this advice , with its implication that depth rather than breadth is of importance , and intimate knowledge of a corner more valuable than a sketchy acquaintance with the globe . |
| 8 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 9 | The central station at Melbourne , Flinders Street , built in Edwardian times , was reconstructed as a massive classical range with a corner entrance crowned by a dome . |
| 10 | In the second half , Alexander made two good chances for himself , but it was Bicester who deservedly equalised after a sustained spell of pressure when Mark Butler stabbed home a loose ball from a corner . |
| 11 | And with the dual-voltage facility , you can tuck this neat styler in a corner of your case and look great at home or away ! |
| 12 | From there the head waiter , as if thinking that they were more than friends , escorted them around the bend of the L-shaped room and to a secluded table in a corner . |
| 13 | In the country , it loads up and goes inert at the first sign of a corner . |
| 14 | As a young girl in the Burrows this method had saved her on more than one occasion from a corner of adversity . |
| 15 | That style may have been the only way round a corner in the days of slippy tyres , dodgy suspension and flexible chassis but modern GP machines permit a faster , more aggressive route through the turn . |
| 16 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 17 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 18 | So if you have any growing in a corner of your garden , cut some of them down now and by July there will be fresh growth for butterflies to lay their eggs on . |
| 19 | It struck Nutty that he had no time to take cars for joy-rides any longer , content to flake out in the thick straw in a corner of Firelight 's box after evenings of running and riding and swimming . |
| 20 | Wally Watmough was the loud-mouthed fat boy who had once beaten Frankie almost senseless in a fist-fight behind the old air-raid shelter in a corner of the boys ' playground . |
| 21 | The correct approach to a corner in the Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 22 | Instead , provide a suitable bed in a corner of the room . |
| 23 | They pick a path through the crowded gloom inside to a low table in a corner at the far end . |
| 24 | In the Red Anchor , he found a quiet seat in a corner . |
| 25 | All his efforts had failed when one day he saw a copy in his local library in a corner of discarded books . |
| 26 | In this case the total of the amount received by the local authority must be spent on the provision of good X. In the case shown , the budget line now looks like 154 and the conditional constraint forces the local authority to a corner solution 5 . |