Example sentences of "building [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | That building in the corner housed the old portable steam-engine that Mr Webster the miller later bought : he used to grind the corn there when there was no wind . |
| 2 | The driver — a sandy young Irishman ( I mention this as it was St Patrick 's Day ) — replied brightly , ‘ Oi do n't know 'bout dat — but dere 's trouble ahead 'cos dere 's some fellow tryin' to jump off a building round the corner . ’ |
| 3 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 4 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 5 | The restaurant , in the former Royal Bank of Scotland building on the corner of Buchanan Street and Gordon Street , will open in June . |
| 6 | Oh there 's that new building on the corner is n't there ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A late flourishing of Victorian Gothic designed by Sir Rowand Anderson , this red stone building at the corner of Queen Street houses both the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , each well worth visiting . |
| 9 | One floor of the building at the corner of Smithdown Road and Garmoyle Road was completely gutted . |
| 10 | Residents were worried that adaptations to the building at the corner of Bow Street and Princes Road meant it was to be used as a morgue . |