Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right at the end of the street was the wall of a very old building , the entrance being around the corner in Barnards Cross . |
| 2 | Ginny bought some milk from Mr Ahmet 's Corner Emporium & Newsagent 's on the corner . |
| 3 | By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner . |
| 4 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 5 | The warren is round the corner of the wood opposite . " |
| 6 | ‘ This damning report blows away the the last remaining pretence that recovery is round the corner , ’ Labour industry spokesman Robin Cook said last night . |
| 7 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a chemist 's round the corner . ’ |
| 9 | The Macedonian government was able to press its claim for recognition , which had been blocked by Greece , by threatening that war was around the corner . |
| 10 | The rise in unemployment frustrated the government 's spending plans , because of the rising costs of social security ; it also undermined the credibility of the government 's claims that its economic strategy was working and that economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 11 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 12 | The shop was round the corner in Back Lane . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps the cathedral is round the corner and that is the Taj Mahal . ’ |
| 14 | His mother had done them — her name was in the corner . |
| 15 | Some say a new era of enlightenment is around the corner , some say that consciousness is quietly entering the mainstream , while others see a grim world of confusion and chaos ( not chaos theory but just plain chaos ) . |
| 16 | When , a little later , she ran out to the post , she took sixpence with her , and went into the confectioner 's at the corner of the road to buy some mint humbugs . |
| 17 | Under it , major changes in reserves would have created an overwhelming presumption that a change in the exchange rate was around the corner , and thus encouraged speculation on what was in effect a certain bet . |
| 18 | At my Mum-in-law 's the sink was in the corner , not under the window where it is now … |
| 19 | The entrance to Cathy Carne 's flat was around the corner — a wooden stairacse , well maintained , with a canopied landing at the top . |
| 20 | You know a miracle will not happen but you find yourself behaving as if it might : we canvassed , those weeks before the election , with a heady feeling that success was round the corner . |
| 21 | Wagamama is around the corner from the British Museum , through a discreet glass door , past a sand-filled ashtray and down some stairs to a big white basement with a shiny open kitchen at one end . |
| 22 | The shape of the budget line changes to 175 ; after point 7 the individual can consume more of good X , but to do so she must give up some quantity of good Y. In the example shown the new welfare maximum for the individual is on the corner point , 7 . |
| 23 | In 1790 Quaker William Kitching opened an ironmonger 's on the corner with Prebend Row . |
| 24 | The cinema was round the corner and |
| 25 | By 1702 , the house and grounds were held by Richard Boyle , the third Earl of Burlington , also the fourth Earl of Cork , who travelled extensively and had many influential friends , including Alexander Pope , who was considered to be head of the literary world and who moved with his parents , in 1716 , to the end house of Dr. Matthias Mawson 's new buildings ( Mawson Row ) , that end house being on the corner of Chiswick Lane and a lane that later became known as Mawson Lane ( now obliterated by the dual carriageway of the Great West Road Extension A.4. ) ; that end house , in due course , becoming a Public House named Fox and Hounds , following Alexander Pope 's removal to Strawberry Hill at Twickenham . |
| 26 | " The house is around the corner . |
| 27 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 28 | From the photograph of the crash we had seen that the demolished house was on the corner of a small lane , and although the house had been rebuilt , when we arrived at the place the position was easily identified . |
| 29 | Their table was in the corner by the juke box ; pop songs from the 19605 made an aural barrier between them and the rest of the clientele . |