Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very quiet in the kitchen except for the clock in the corner that ticked so loudly that it sounded as if it would burst out of its case . |
| 2 | Many stores were as small as 500 sq ft — about the size of the corner shops which they still resembled — but as the big boys got bigger the small shops went to the wall . |
| 3 | Someone had chucked a brick through the gas-mantle on the corner by the Cathedral railings and it had n't been replaced . |
| 4 | Holding the tile hard against a metal vice , I hit the corner with a small hammer , knocking off the back of the corner ( about ¾in at a time ) . |
| 5 | Fire crews swilled away fuel after a spillage at the corner of The Avenue and Farndale Drive in Guisborough yesterday . |
| 6 | The secret is not to get too greedy and try to knock off large pieces : aim to knock out the back of the tile at the corner , which weakens the front , and then gently hammer the front , a bit at a time . |
| 7 | So where does that leave a privatised Post Office , particularly with its range of fancy commemorative stamps aimed at the philatelic market , each with its tiny silhouette of the Queen in the corner ? |
| 8 | Thur er Wednesday and Thursday the children I have before and after school at Goose Hill School , you know the one , the one near me , just the bottom of the road on the corner , that 's had to be closed on Thursday because the boiler room had flooded on Wednesday and er they had to dry it out and also the children from Newminster were told anyone living in the Middle Queens area go home |
| 9 | What would you see on the floor of the museum in the corner opposite the door ? |
| 10 | A drunk sat on the step of the pub on the corner , his head in his hands . |
| 11 | Goalkeeper Bolder off his line , punched away only to Andy Melville on the edge of the penalty area ; Melville ran forward after picking up the loose ball , hammered it forward , Martin Foyle getting the last touch of the ball into the corner of the net , and United now seemingly pushing forward towards three points . |
| 12 | One floor of the building at the corner of Smithdown Road and Garmoyle Road was completely gutted . |
| 13 | He sat in front of the white typewriter , listening to the ticking of the clock in the corner by the window . |
| 14 | Crane appeared in the middle of the track on the corner . |
| 15 | When I turned Fox was sitting on the end of the table in the corner , lighting another cigarette . |
| 16 | Tom was standing on the stone steps of the shop at the corner , waiting for him . |
| 17 | It is 2215 hours , and the team room in a Detachment of 321 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company is quiet except for the steady drone of the television in the corner and the occasional outburst from the Province Incident Radio Net ( PIN ) . |
| 18 | On the co on the front of the house at the corner . |
| 19 | But Rangers finally drew level just on the half time whistle when Hateley side-footed a free kick from the edge of the box into the corner of the net . |
| 20 | Straight on down there and straight towards The Globe on the corner ? |
| 21 | She ran past the Library to the corner of Unter den Linden and saw Karl , notable in his elegant overcoat , sauntering down the street . |
| 22 | His shirt was n't clean and he had the beginnings of a pimple at the corner of his mouth and another about to burst above the knot of his cravat . |
| 23 | She found a pair of stockings , passed her hand through to check for runs , discovered a small one near the heel and dabbed it with the bar of soap to hold it ; put on her two-tone coffee and cream high-heel shoes , then looking close in the mirror , applied some eyeliner with the flick of a tail in the corner and painted pale lipstick on her mouth . |
| 24 | Her friend , Rosie Fortinbras , always getting lost between the Pinacoteca and the Duomo in Siena , boasted of having kissed her way round all the waiters in the restaurant in the Piazza del Campo , saving for the last , like a favourite soft creamy centre , little Vittorio with the face of a page-boy in the corner of an Adoration of the Magi . |
| 25 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 26 | After only a few months there I located an even better one on the ground floor of a house at the corner of Jervis and Georgia Streets , not far from the CBC studios . |
| 27 | By sheer force of will she ignored the sounds of pattering and gnawing near the body in the corner . |
| 28 | All that remained of the laughter of that morning was the cardboard box filled with dead peonies and shoved against the wall in the corner by the sink . |
| 29 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | People living near a mosque at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road appear to have resolved a dispute with the local Muslim community over plans to extend it . |