Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | That building in the corner housed the old portable steam-engine that Mr Webster the miller later bought : he used to grind the corn there when there was no wind . |
| 2 | Two men grabbed a battered old rocking horse from the corner , and rushed it towards Ilse . |
| 3 | Yeah , it 's just in this one top part in the corner |
| 4 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ said Hussey , bent reverently double , and eyeing his widowed kinswoman from the corner of one eye , ‘ if your Grace will but hear me … ’ |
| 5 | Another try at the corner of Sassenach was made by Jimmy Marshall in 1953 , again from the Centurion groove . |
| 6 | ‘ Just after I left Joe , this side of the corner of Bal Lane . |
| 7 | She went on , past the blacksmith 's , past the corrugated-iron public lavatory on the corner , plastered with faded posters that peeled and flapped , across the road , through the stepped gap between two old houses whose lath and plaster upper storeys almost touched overhead , and into the little square . |
| 8 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 9 | Picking her up gently in his mouth he carried her back home , sweeping her flamboyantly over the threshold and into their new abode — his cosy old basket in the corner of the kitchen ! |
| 10 | Viola Machin , seated in a dignified pose on the corner of the kitchen table , her white and pale blue brunch coat billowing around her , found her pose of aggrieved innocence difficult to keep up . |
| 11 | Neath then won a ruck in Bridgend 's 22 and after Laity had committed two defenders , Barclay had a clear overlap to the corner . |
| 12 | But Scunthorpe withstood the pressure and scored in injury time with the very last kick of the match , Ian Helliwell curling a free kick into the corner of the net . |
| 13 | Then Goodman scored a soft goal with his head for a free kick near the corner flag . |
| 14 | A reply was then received from Mr Quarry but the proposed ground rent of £15 a year was considered too high and another effort was made to get from the Baroness von Steiglitz some ground at the corner of what is now Carrickblacker Avenue and in the same field where the existing Tabernacle stood . |
| 15 | The grandfather , a former soldier in India and retired horseman , had had a leg amputated : ‘ he ended up wi' a stump , so he used to sit in this … old chair in the corner … and nurse Aunt Lillie 's children . ’ |
| 16 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 17 | The violet-patterned handkerchief had some writing in the corner . |
| 18 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 19 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 20 | If a radius is drawn from this centre through the corner of the rectangle , the centre of the arc for the smaller flap is fixed automatically at the point of intersection of the radius and the major axis . |
| 21 | James this ho this hole in the corner near the |
| 22 | He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres . |
| 23 | Then , just when they thought that they had finished and were about to leave the room , up pipes a small Scottish voice in the corner which says , ’ What about Scotland ? ’ |
| 24 | An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox , Johnny sang about a thing called love And it 's how 're ya kid and what 's your name and how 'd you bloody know … |
| 25 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 26 | Alas , with Patey some way up the corner , darkness threatened . |
| 27 | Al-Makesh pointed to a wooden container in the corner of the room . |
| 28 | The old chap in the corner 's got them . |
| 29 | From the next stile turn right and follow the fence on the right to another stile in the corner of the field . |
| 30 | There 's a public house on the corner called the Lighthouse . |