Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the schools were built in the corners of crowded burial grounds , or over public sewers into which they slowly sank . |
| 2 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 3 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
| 4 | The twisted machinery pieces cast shadows on the floor , weird and grotesque , so that , for a heart-stopping moment , Fenella thought that strange beast-things were crouching in the corners and remembered that Caspar had said something about Sentry Spells ; minor enchantments that the Robemaker might have left on guard in his absence . |
| 5 | The building was almost unrelievedly functional , although some mural decorations were incorporated into the corners of the concourse and some simple ornamentation appeared above the lifts . |
| 6 | But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner . |
| 7 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
| 8 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
| 9 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 10 | An hour later the twins and George were waiting on the corner with their baskets , bags and gas-masks . |
| 11 | The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth . |
| 12 | A regulator 's box was erected on the corner of Croydon Road and Elmers End Road opposite the Robin Hood , in the front garden of No. 103 Croydon Road in accordance with an Agreement reached with Mr. S. G. Gee , the owner of the property , on 16 May 1918 , for £5 per annum . |
| 13 | The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk . |
| 14 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
| 15 | Erm my mother , we were a little bit better off than they were and er I remember going to a child with my mother , to see what would be my aunt you see and uncle , and the only time I ever remember seeing my aunt with eleven children was sitting at the corner of a table with a sort of a coarse apron on and just sitting there and I never saw her doing anything . |
| 16 | THE TV was blaring in the corner , displaying EastEnders in black and white . |
| 17 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |