Example sentences of "at [num] corner " in BNC.

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1 The method of loading ( see Figure 8 ) is simple ; you start at one corner of the loading poles and work clockwise around the tripod , keeping the corners well built up .
2 At one corner , a large chunk had been knocked out completely , leaving a nasty , jagged edge .
3 Bordering the lawn was a wall of trees with a huge oak at one corner .
4 The church is built close to the edge of the bluff , which falls an overgrown eighty or ninety feet down into the wide bed of the gave or river ; and the view up or downstream is dignified further by the curtain wall of the medieval Tour Monréal , that stands at one corner of the small square in front of the church .
5 The three of them were all sitting together at one corner of the table , but the table was large and there were many other seats .
6 He arranged the coins neatly in their denominations on top of the note , halfpennies and pennies at one corner , sixpences and shillings at another , two florins at a third , and a half-crown covering the last unanchored corner .
7 Governor Peter Nicholson watched the rain , hands clasped behind his back , his office lit only by the desk lamp at one corner .
8 Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list .
9 The mouth was harsh , downturned at one corner , though it lifted when he smiled .
10 Small , black-and-white , crumpled at one corner .
11 Her stilted smile reappeared , placing a dent at one corner of her mouth , but she waited a few seconds longer , making sure that the ghost had retreated again .
12 Guy 's mouth kicked up at one corner in a wryly amused smile .
13 He looked powerful and tough , and yet Isabel found herself noticing that his lower lip was slightly fuller than the upper , and that his mouth quirked at one corner , hinting at a sense of humour .
14 His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets .
15 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
16 The crocheted edging of the cloth attempts to frame , but only at one corner : within it the title , take from a popular song of the 1930s , is stitched in red .
17 So now you 've got ta split it up into triangles by starting at one corner .
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