Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [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 | For example , when we were recording this album at Eel Pie Studios , Pete Townshend 's amp was sitting in a corner , so of course I had to try it ! |
| 3 | Equipment was crammed into every corner . |
| 4 | But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner . |
| 5 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
| 6 | A woman was rocking in a corner . |
| 7 | One man was whimpering in the corner and two others were playing a bizarre version of dominoes , in which none of the numbers matched . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When she awoke , rubbing at a rather stiff neck , feeling hungry , but better than she expected , she found it was the middle of the morning and sunshine was streaming into every corner of the cottage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk . |
| 12 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | THE TV was blaring in the corner , displaying EastEnders in black and white . |
| 16 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |