Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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1 | A rapid gear change gave them speed on the corner and he sat bent over the wheel , concentrating fiercely on the road through the sheets of rain . |
2 | I put my head round the corner : ‘ What if a horse came and broke his leg on the ice ? ’ |
3 | My friend round the corner . |
4 | ‘ We came together because it looked as if he was going to try to take my line to the corner . |
5 | She slipped her arm through mine , I picked up my rifle from the corner near to the band , who were now packing up their instruments . |
6 | A black witch , casting spells from her hiding-place in the corner . |
7 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
8 | Blanche retreated to her cubicle in the corner of the room , a knot of thoughtfulness still on her forehead , her movement followed by all the constables in the office who looked up from their conversations . |
9 | When she was about to move forward though , ready to go up to that front door and ring the bell , some sound drew her attention to the corner of the house . |
10 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
11 | She caught her head on the corner of the hearth . |
12 | There was a small room adjoining the games-room , and she poked her head round the corner . |
13 | ‘ Voila ! ’ said Madame from her chair in the corner of the well-curtained booth . |
14 | Modigliani did not recognize her when she met him and brandished her knife on the corner of the Rue Delambre and the Boulevard Montparnasse . |
15 | Many were the midnight cocoa sessions Rosemary and I had , sitting on her bed in the corner of Hut 4 , trying to sort out her love life . |
16 | The house has three show façades , each one isolated from its fellow around the corner , each one with different window surrounds . |
17 | Sorrel was on duty at her stall on the corner of the flea market , so that was my first port of call . |
18 | It is well placed for excursions to the most spectacular part of the lake , and a region through its position at the corner , where the main lake turns south to face the high massif of the Gotthard and the route which has always beckoned northern traders , adventurers , mercenary soldiers — and nowadays tourists towards the southern lands . |
19 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
20 | He turned round , then turned back , looked once more round the room , then shook his head quickly and went to the door , taking his stick from the corner by the washing machine on his way out . |
21 | Hannen Swaffer — revered almost as the Bernard Shaw of left-wing journalism — used to blow in and write his piece on the corner of someone else 's desk . |
22 | ‘ I can do without that , ’ replied the stranger brusquely , squeezing his bulk into the corner . |
23 | Slatter was standing over a youth and his girlfriend in the corner . |
24 | ‘ Parked his car round the corner and walked straight into our arms . ’ |
25 | In ten angular jerks and a trip Ranald rose from his seat in the corner by Luch to open the door for Lady Bridhe to leave . |
26 | Seated at his desk in the corner by the window , Eliot would switch his chair round , and the guest would be settled down opposite . |
27 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
28 | ‘ Lloyd George is right ! ’ he yelled from his cart at the corner of the Main Street . |
29 | He wrote his name in the corner of the picture . |
30 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |