Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three lorry loads are leaving each day bound for Cumbernauld , Elderslie or round the corner to BMK . |
| 2 | Got him buried yet , or cremated and his ashes scattered down Threadneedle Street or round the corner in your wine bar on the floor with the sawdust ? |
| 3 | It was only just getting over the shock 21 years later when an apparition sauntered past St Paul ‘ s School and round the corner of Gartocher Road into Shettleston Road . |
| 4 | IV or Four was on the door to the right and round the corner on the left was the Handwork Room , the Headmaster 's Study being on the extreme right next to the bathroom and opposite the Staff Common Room . |
| 5 | I had rooms in college that year , so instead of turning east along the High I carried on down Magpie Lane and round the corner into Merton Street , taking care over the cobbles , treacherous when wet . |
| 6 | Out of Decimus Street , and round the corner into Paradise Street , and immediately he was back in his childhood , eight years old and with itchy feet . |
| 7 | Paradise Street , next to Decimus Street and round the corner from the area known as the ‘ Dirty Wick ’ , was a hard place to call home . |
| 8 | There is a small shop flanked by brick cottages with pantiled roofs , and round the corner near the lane leading to the neighbouring hamlet of Uncleby is the now disused blacksmith 's forge , once so busy in the days of working horses . |
| 9 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 10 | But being a rebel at heart he always modelled the battleships on the Potemkin , and in the corner of every panel he painted a little red devil with a pitchfork and a knowing grin . |
| 11 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 12 | Each cage was about the size of a wire basket for office mail , and in the corner of every one was a pellet hopper and an inverted water bottle . |
| 13 | ( Andrew speaks of Rhodes as if he might walk through the door ; and in the corner of the living-room hangs a pencil portrait , autographed , of ‘ The Founder ’ . ) |
| 14 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 15 | And on the corner by the Duomo a lieutenant in the uniform of the S.S. whistled at me . |
| 16 | In the town , slates and bin-lids took flight and at the corner of Maxstone Villas , a rheumy old man , blue chinned , bent his back against the blast . |
| 17 | Notice boards were set up on the College house , and at the corner of the road . |
| 18 | Paszti-Bott , a small storefront on An der Linde 25 , sits in interesting isolation just behind the train station and around the corner from the Musikhochschule . |
| 19 | Sitting up stiffly , Perdita gave a gasp , for in the corner beside Tero , a beautiful rose-red mare , her coat mackerelled with dried sweat , was quietly grazing . |