Example sentences of "the corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then on he sat cowering in the corner beside his case praying for the journey to end and did not dare move , look down or even breath . |
| 2 | She turned to Sally , who was kneeling in the corner beside her bookcase , trying to make herself unobtrusive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The wind whistled up round the corner past the supermarket to Stormy Hill . |
| 6 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 7 | Holding the tile hard against a metal vice , I hit the corner with a small hammer , knocking off the back of the corner ( about ¾in at a time ) . |
| 8 | One of these , Moody 's , was on the corner with Trinity Street . |
| 9 | T. D. A woman in Kent Street used to come to the corner with a bottle of beer . |
| 10 | Billy was still slouched in the corner with his left leg stretched across the seat and his right arm around Mary 's neck . |
| 11 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 12 | I ran to Coburg Street , saw Sam at the corner with some of his mates , and blurted out what had happened . |
| 13 | An hour later the twins and George were waiting on the corner with their baskets , bags and gas-masks . |
| 14 | He turned into Blandford Street and found the call-box he sought on the corner with Chiltern Street , one of a bank of two . |
| 15 | At another house the officer noticed a low table in the corner with a dust-free area in the exact shape of a TV . |
| 16 | Then all of a sudden this car came hurtling round the corner with no lights on . |
| 17 | Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on . |
| 18 | But equally there 's no point sitting in the corner with a handkerchief stuffed in your mouth . |
| 19 | There were two Frenchmen in the corner with shifty eyes and scarred faces who looked away when I stared at them , and a friendly Scandinavian with a tan and fine blond hair who shook my hand and said , ‘ France fucking shit , yes ? ’ |
| 20 | It appeared round the corner with loud threats of speed , but the colt that it startled from among the gorse , which still flickered indistinctly in the raw afternoon , outdistanced it at a canter ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | The mad girl crouching in the corner with her frock up and the unforgivable substance coming from her mouth . |
| 22 | The window frame hung drunkenly across the cupboard in the corner with a piece of glass held together by the criss-crossed brown paper hanging down from it like a flag . |
| 23 | It had been quite crowded , but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink . |
| 24 | Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets |
| 25 | The Community Council is planning to improve the corner with the seat at the bottom of Fishers Brae . |
| 26 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |
| 27 | In 1790 Quaker William Kitching opened an ironmonger 's on the corner with Prebend Row . |
| 28 | With some sheep in the sheep in the corner with |
| 29 | He felt his way along the narrow walk of the triforium to the distant end , close to the east window that showed a shapely pattern of starry lancets against the blackness ; and there he wrapped his cloak about him and huddled into the corner with his back against the wall . |
| 30 | because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch . |