Example sentences of "on the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house is prominently sited on the corner of Portland Street and Langham Street . |
| 2 | We bumped into Strummer on the corner of Old Compton Street and Frith Street , just down the road from Ronnie Scott 's . |
| 3 | The shop on the corner sells string — I know cos I seen it — so I ask if I should go and buy some . |
| 4 | There 's a man cooking chestnuts on the corner and I stop and warm my hands over the fire and look at the Christmas tree . |
| 5 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 6 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 7 | THE Bar Marius , on the corner of Viale Trento , is the magical delicatessen-cum-drinking den run by Mario Mariosardara , the 65-year-old president of the Cagliari supporters ' club . |
| 8 | AT the store on the corner , three drunken men are trying to eat the same hot dog . |
| 9 | It was outside Tony DeFries 's office on the corner of Regent Street and Great Castle Street . |
| 10 | McLeish repressed a grin and bustled into the big noisy pub on the corner , receiving an instant acknowledgement from one of the bartenders , who all knew any member of the C1 hierarchy . |
| 11 | On the corner was a huge oak tree . |
| 12 | Hannen Swaffer — revered almost as the Bernard Shaw of left-wing journalism — used to blow in and write his piece on the corner of someone else 's desk . |
| 13 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 14 | Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right . |
| 15 | In fact he used to be seen lunching austerely in his favourite vegetarian restaurant on the corner of Leicester Square , where the permitted maximum of five shillings for the price of a meal could only be spent by earnest application . |
| 16 | Over to the right was the main street , with a grocer 's shop on the corner and a straggle of grey houses . |
| 17 | From the loudspeakers on the corner pillars came a selection of popular songs by Gracie Fields . |
| 18 | With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath . |
| 19 | Nanny lived in a big house on the corner of Lansdowne Place , near the club and the post office and opposite the big church . |
| 20 | My most successful Boston fern looks a picture on the corner of the bath , where it enjoys good , indirect light and a humid atmosphere . |
| 21 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 22 | On the corner of the Square in his day would have been St Michael 's Church . |
| 23 | ‘ You usually go to the shop on the corner after school , for some chewing gum … ’ |
| 24 | A gas lamp on the corner of Glebe Street near St Mungo 's Academy was askew . |
| 25 | Fireman Robb shouldered his way through the bat-wing doors of the ‘ Seven Seas ’ on the corner of Kilbowie Road . |
| 26 | Not the Ka de We on the corner . |
| 27 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 28 | They had to get old Mr Letham in his green coat and brass buttons to struggle up and get the flag of clothes down , but up there , the last name carved in the sandstone right up there on the corner looking down over Glasgow , was in 1910 . |
| 29 | The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road , at the beginning of the twentieth century , for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick , the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall , but also another Hall named after Hogarth , whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule . |
| 30 | By 1702 , the house and grounds were held by Richard Boyle , the third Earl of Burlington , also the fourth Earl of Cork , who travelled extensively and had many influential friends , including Alexander Pope , who was considered to be head of the literary world and who moved with his parents , in 1716 , to the end house of Dr. Matthias Mawson 's new buildings ( Mawson Row ) , that end house being on the corner of Chiswick Lane and a lane that later became known as Mawson Lane ( now obliterated by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension A.4. ) ; that end house , in due course , becoming a Public House named Fox and Hounds , following Alexander Pope 's removal to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham . |