Example sentences of "shop [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor the neighbours , nor the postman and the milkman , nor the shopkeepers in the run of shops round the corner . |
| 2 | The imposition of heavy death duties payable in the 1930's , led to the sale of the original nursery land , on which three blocks of flats were built — Beverley , Belgrave and Beaumont Courts , but the little parade of shops on the corner of Walpole Gardens , just across the road from the old nursery , is still named Fromow 's Corner . |
| 3 | The shop round the corner 's selling these Christmas trees . |
| 4 | Ant : The hardware shop round the corner , it was dead cheap . |
| 5 | Now , designing systems like that requires computers with big memories , much , much bigger than the ones that you can buy in your shop round the corner at the moment , and the programs are quite complicated , it 's quite difficult to do this sort of thing , but in principle there 's no reason why it should n't happen , and that would make computers much easier to learn to use . |
| 6 | The shop on the corner sells string — I know cos I seen it — so I ask if I should go and buy some . |
| 7 | Over to the right was the main street , with a grocer 's shop on the corner and a straggle of grey houses . |
| 8 | ‘ You usually go to the shop on the corner after school , for some chewing gum … ’ |
| 9 | From the time that I was eight years of age , on coming out from Morning Service , I could not hang about with my friends , but had to dash to the Sunday Newspaper seller who operated a pitch outside Wilkes , Son and Cassey 's Ironmongers Shop on the corner of Milford Street and Queen Street . |
| 10 | People gathered in groups outside the burger place ; others went to buy cigarettes from the Indian shop on the corner and then stood at the bus stop . |
| 11 | To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma . |
| 12 | It was one of the rituals of this lonely spinster 's life that every day she would take her chihuahua to the shop on the corner and back again . |
| 13 | Mrs. Dow worked as an assistant in the newsagent 's shop on the corner of the street opposite Ezra 's premises . |
| 14 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 15 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 16 | Then coming along Street you come to the picture frame people and then the Conservative Club , then there was the big house further on towards the top of Street and that was owned by somebody named Winnie , was my second wife 's she went to school with her they used but her father lived there , and on the other side of the road you got the toy shop and er the draper 's shop on the corner of er Road then there was the newsagents and one or two people kept that , but that takes you from the top of Street straight the way up to Caldmore . |
| 17 | Her real name was Rebecca Salmon and she was the daughter of Dan Salmon who owned the baker 's shop on the corner of Brick Lane . |
| 18 | ‘ I own a baker 's shop on the corner of Whitechapel Road , ’ replied Charlie , ‘ and a- ’ |
| 19 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 20 | Boulevard , that 's with the bed shop on the corner |
| 21 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 22 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 23 | Tom was standing on the stone steps of the shop at the corner , waiting for him . |
| 24 | Nenna struggled against an impulse to rush into the fish and chip shop at the corner , the only shop in the street , and ask them if they had ever seen somebody coming out of number 42b who looked lonely , or indeed if they had ever seen anyone coming out of it at all . |
| 25 | ‘ Sean had his shop at the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road for 18 years and he was so well-known . |
| 26 | No aside the wee shop at the corner of Street . |