Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [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 | All these narrow strokes were done from the corners of the pastel sticks . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
5 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk . |
8 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
9 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |