Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important however to dispel the ‘ big push ’ theory of change — that all we need is one last great effort to climb the next hill or round the next corner and we shall then arrive in the promised land of milk , honey and stability ! |
| 2 | Not knowing what lay ahead made him excited and nervous but he could n't help wanting to discover what was behind a door or round the next corner . |
| 3 | ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’ |
| 4 | He picked the ball up on the edge of the Ipswich penalty area , turned and struck a wonderful left-footed shot over the rooted Forrest and into the top corner of the net for his 18th goal of the season . |
| 5 | If you can grasp the dizzying , nauseating , stinging injustice and humiliation of such a moment , then you can grasp how Neil Kaas felt when Sheedy bent his free kick round the Luton wall and into the top corner . |
| 6 | Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner . |
| 7 | Anthea 's room was the only one to open onto the gallery itself , opposite the huge stairwell , and round the far corner was the men 's corridor . |
| 8 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 9 | Hodge had a good header turned round the post by the keeper , and from the resulting corner the header was cleared off the line by an Ipswich defender . |
| 10 | And from the resulting corner , Mark Stein got his head to the ball , it flashed across the face of the Wolves goal , bounced off the crossbar and the chance had gone . |
| 11 | And from the next corner a couple of minutes later he repeated the dose . |
| 12 | Here and there the open doors of furnaces glowed a dangerous red , and in the far corner of the building what looked like a stream of molten lava trickled down a curved channel from roof to floor . |
| 13 | On the wall there were a few decent water-colours of the English countryside and in the far corner , several framed group photographs . |
| 14 | In the light that came from these he could see a rough plank table and three chairs and in the darkest corner a bed of stretched hides on which was curled up something darker still , a bundle the size of an old woman . |
| 15 | And in the blue corner ! |
| 16 | East of this , £1 assessments topped the 45 per cent mark only in Samford hundred , which was practically coterminous with the ‘ rich loam ’ area , identified by Arthur Young , and in the north-eastern corner of the county , which he was ‘ much inclined to class ’ with it , and was almost a part of Norfolk . |
| 17 | There were narrow flowerbeds in need of weeding on both sides , and in the sheltered corner between the store and the wall a tall rose lifted imperious petals like flames . |
| 18 | A little further up is a right turn and on the far corner of this a chip shop . |
| 19 | On one side of this room were the Sports Editor and his assistant , Murray Brown , and next to them was a general reporter , Allan Robinson , while in the left corner was Jim Miller , nephew of the Times-Herald owner . |