Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire crews swilled away fuel after a spillage at the corner of The Avenue and Farndale Drive in Guisborough yesterday . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But Dzagnidze then followed his own kick for a try in the corner , and Mironov swept through for a try that Dzagnidze converted . |
| 9 | Fallon still had a bit of work to do , even then , but he had already bumped off Perrins and Hannaford with one uncompromising run and this time his strength buried the rest of the Gloucester defence and took him over for a try in the corner . |
| 10 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 11 | A weary Charlie finally stepped off a tram on the corner of Chelsea Terrace a little after four o'clock . |
| 12 | Alex Graham brought Armagh back into the match at 20-18 with a try in the corner after a clever kick ahead by James Scott . |
| 13 | On the Pennyfarthing Street corner was James Garage which had been a Job Masters with a showroom at the corner . |
| 14 | The corporate communiqué can be set out on anything from regulation A4 paper with a staple in the corner , to grandiose box presentations containing ‘ sampler ’ cassettes or compact discs previewing the alleged highlights of a forthcoming release . |
| 15 | Planning officers have received an application to convert two shops into a restaurant on the corner of Yarm Road and Peel Street . |
| 16 | Whitlock shoved him back onto a tarpaulin in the corner of the warehouse and scooped up the Browning . |
| 17 | Her bare feet padded across the polished terracotta tiles to the bottles lined along a shelf in the corner . |
| 18 | I picked up a pair of combat boots from a pile in the corner , found some laces , and looked at the other people wondering with whom I could swop my uniform . |
| 19 | One of them has in fact already opened just downtown in Arata Isosaki 's renovated space in a building at the corner of Prince Street and Broadway in the heart ( perhaps a more appropriate word would be bowels ) of SoHo . |
| 20 | Duncan the Drunken ran a small lock-up garage off Longbridge Road in Barking and he and the wife , Doreen , lived in a two-up-two-down round the corner . |
| 21 | , Jonathan ( 1690 ? –1747 ) , mathematical instrument-maker , born perhaps in 1690 , went to London from Lincolnshire and was established in a workshop on the corner of Beaufort Buildings in the Strand by 1722 , probably having worked for George Graham [ q.v. ] , with whom he remained on very close terms . |
| 22 | Mechanic Tommy Murray , 24 , who works in a garage on the corner of the road , said : ‘ There was blood all over the place . |
| 23 | The stage was empty but four of the dancers — two old hands , two new sat in a huddle in the corner by the bar , dressed in their practice motley and trading stories about bad managements and past physiotherapy . |
| 24 | They went to Cornhill , past Leadenhall and into Aldgate , pausing where a crowd had gathered round a speaker on the corner of Poor Jewry . |
| 25 | At lunch time half a dozen of us would go to a pub at the corner of Fitzroy Street and Euston Road . |
| 26 | The nurse pointed to a bed in the corner where Sigarup would sleep , and another , next to it , for Kānchho Ba . |
| 27 | The tram back to Chelsea seemed to take for ever , but at last it came to a halt on the corner of Chelsea Terrace . |
| 28 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 29 | He looked over my shoulder at Mr Saleb who was talking to a colleague in the corner . |
| 30 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |