Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shed was of wood , a compact , dark , creosoted building tucked into the corner of the shrubbery . |
| 2 | In the yard next to ours was a tiny cottage squeezed in the corner . |
| 3 | Nobody but a fool who believes his luck lies around the corner could be similarly influenced by the likes of Frankie . |
| 4 | Still no takers for this ‘ mirror to all you wish to remember ’ and now it is down £1.95 , or was there a 95p tag lurking in the corner of the flyleaf ? |
| 5 | The first-floor room has one of the finest ceilings in Portugal , made of wood carved and painted with shell volutes in the corners . |
| 6 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 7 | As we stepped into a side road , a car roared round the corner , its tyres screeching , and almost wiped both of us into oblivion . |
| 8 | Yes , course there 's always a car parked on the corner is n't it ? . |
| 9 | There 's always a car parked on the corner |
| 10 | Her measuring glance moved to the corner of his mouth , where the line of his lips was prolonged in a short red scar , and then to his cheek-bone , which bore a suggestive blue stain . |
| 11 | Just then , a car came round the corner and flattened the poor moggy . |
| 12 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 13 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |
| 14 | Her mouth drooped at the corners . |
| 15 | Suzie has lit the fire , and has set one small light to glow in the corner of the room . |
| 16 | 3 Number the ½cm marks from 1 to 12 along one side and 12 to 1 along the other side starting from the corner of the angle . |
| 17 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 18 | Congealed black blood stains in the corner cracks make her look like a baby bird on a diet of blackberries . |
| 19 | She had a vision of Adamus walking up the wall of the house in the black of the moon , his pale face lifted and a trickle of blood running from the corner of his mouth . |
| 20 | Turning the eye reveals a different view through the cubic grid ; the three point geometry is based upon a pyramid sliced from the corner of a cube . |
| 21 | The rainbow mobile cast into the corner |
| 22 | A man goes in the pub , there 's a bear sitting in the corner . |
| 23 | More blood appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 24 | There was a figure standing in the corner by an open window . |
| 25 | She had sprinted over the drive and was halfway across the stone-flagged terrace when a figure appeared around the corner of the house . |
| 26 | Kicking at pine cones on the path , Mungo was halfway to the top of the slope when a slight figure appeared round the corner of the station entrance . |
| 27 | They heard heavy breathing and a figure appeared round the corner , clothed in the grey garb of Godstowe Priory . |
| 28 | She shivered as a stray gust of wind whistled around the corner of a side-street , averting her eyes from the shadows cast by the encroaching house frontages . |
| 29 | Then she had the severest strain put on the control of her newly awakened ear-boxing predilection when his mouth twitched at the corners and it seemed , for a moment , that her sarcasm had amused him . |
| 30 | His mouth twitched at the corner . |