Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.

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1 Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game .
2 Equipment was crammed into every corner .
3 Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there .
4 Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium .
5 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 .
6 The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk .
7 The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner .
8 Comrades were unlucky not to score in the 11th minute , Colin Crawford picking out Eddie Patterson whose snap shot was turned for a corner by Mark Gillespie , in for the dropped Stephen Eachus .
9 He cut inside but then shot straight at the goal keeper , and in the seventy second minute , Stein 's low shot was pushed for a corner by Stowell .
10 The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert .
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