Example sentences of "stand [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rowan tree ( Sorbus aucuparia ) or in Gaelic , which stands in the corner of the kitchen garden or just beyond the house or byre , has protected the home , the family and the cattle from witches and fairies for centuries , and has endured after many a homestead has been deserted . |
| 2 | Henry stands in the corner , too expectant to be rude . |
| 3 | An echo : Once in fourth grade , he was sent to stand in the corner , next to the blackboard ; whilst there , he powdered his face with white chalk and when he turned around he was a clown , beaming a smile at the class like The Joker in Batman . |
| 4 | ‘ You get any closer to him , my lass , and he 'll have to stand in the corner till he cools down , ’ said Werewolf , draining the last of his wine . |
| 5 | One night , early in February 1518 , the three of us were in a tavern called the Chariot , a cosy little ale house which stands on the corner of the Rue des Mineurs near the church of Saint Sulpice . |
| 6 | Go and stand in the corner on one leg with your face to the wall ! ’ |
| 7 | I slip across the floor and stand in the corner of the room , so I 'll be away from , but behind , the kitchen door when they open it . |
| 8 | Put on the hat and stand in the corner . |
| 9 | They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , all right , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I 'll go and stand in the corner in a minute . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll go and stand in the corner I think for being naughty . |
| 12 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 13 | Already his mouth was watering at the prospect of sinking his teeth into a thick slice of bread liberally spread with best butter and sprinkled with sugar from one of the big sacks standing in the corner . |
| 14 | To have one standing in the corner of every room in the house is a tremendous help to an old person who can not bend ; although , of course , one will suffice , as it can be carried from one room to another when it is needed . |
| 15 | The father took a golf-club that was standing in the corner . |
| 16 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 17 | Beyond him , she caught sight of something standing in the corner . |
| 18 | Perhaps here and there the old man would have found some evidences of the former world : the windmill of his younger days still standing in the corner of a new field , though now derelict and forlorn , or the traces of the former strips in the ridge-and-furrow of the new pastures , but not much else . |
| 19 | The music came from a little hut on wheels , standing in the corner of a field . |
| 20 | He turned to a tall woman , who was standing in the corner . |
| 21 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 22 | There was a figure standing in the corner by an open window . |
| 23 | I 'd walk up to the corner of Mill Street — a very scruffy street , and there was a gang of fellers standing on the corner and some of them were sitting on the pub sill and others standing around . |
| 24 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 25 | This routine went on week after week , and might never have changed , until one Saturday morning a toffee-nosed lady who I had noticed standing on the corner for the past week , wearing a long black dress and carrying a parasol , strode over to our barrow , stopped and placed a white feather in Dad 's lapel . |
| 26 | While standing at the corner with some of the boys , a tall , well-built , red-haired man approached them , and said : |
| 27 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 28 | It was a substantial house standing at the corner of a tree-lined street in an Irish neighbourhood of the city . |
| 29 | Standing at the corner of May Street and East Bridge Street it was built by JC Bretland and completed in 1896 . |
| 30 | upsetting , he was stood on the was there , and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of . |