Example sentences of "at a corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stout middle-aged man sat at a corner playing a red squeeze box and working a pedal with one foot which made a row of wooden puppets dance . |
| 2 | Suddenly a small single-decker bus appeared at a corner not far away . |
| 3 | At one massive bunker , two test charges laid at a corner made little impression on the walls . |
| 4 | At a corner table , three men and an ample woman in an apron played cards noisily , the slap of the cards punctuated by bursts of virtuoso coughing , that cavernous café cough which echoes up from the boots . |
| 5 | At a corner he stopped to wait for a break in the traffic . |
| 6 | In a small French restaurant off Sloane Square , the couple sat at a corner table , their faces lit by candlelight . |
| 7 | The low murmur of conversation in the hotel 's sun lounge was like the crashing of waves to Kelly as she entered to see Annie at a corner table . |
| 8 | The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor , who saw them regularly in the winter months . |
| 9 | In a room at a corner of the house a man fiddling with coffee cups looked up briefly , said good morning , and carried on fiddling . |
| 10 | Instead , cross at lights whenever possible or at a clear stretch of road where there is good visibility , rather than at a corner . |
| 11 | He took her down to the brasserie , sat with her at a corner table away from the main body of the room . |
| 12 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 13 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 14 | He nodded at a corner booth , " I 'll bring it over . " |
| 15 | They sat at a corner table , a slab of mahogany on an iron base that had once belonged to a Singer sewing machine . |
| 16 | At a corner table , with her back turned towards them , sat a woman in black , apparently doing some accounts , and surrounded by dusty furniture ; perhaps she had been cruelly deserted on her wedding day , and had sat there ever since , refusing to have anything touched . |
| 17 | I sat , bored , at a corner of the heavy wood table , picking at the pages of a book . |
| 18 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 19 | Sir Ralph ( he had been knighted by Margaret Thatcher in 1980 for raising money from commerce and industry to finance the activities of Conservative Central Office when in Opposition ) bought a coffee and sat down at a corner table . |
| 20 | He was sitting at a corner table with an English girl called Rose Franklin . |
| 21 | Examples are advertisements which obstruct the line of sight at a corner , bend , or obstruct the view of a traffic signal , and illuminated advertisements which are likely to dazzle or confuse road users or are likely to be mistaken for traffic lights . |