Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the corner [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sitting at right-angles to them ( on either side of the corner of a table ) or even alongside them will make for more harmony . |
| 2 | ‘ Just after I left Joe , this side of the corner of Bal Lane . |
| 3 | They had thrown the bear into the corner of the room . |
| 4 | She noticed one of the wooden struts on the opposite wall had snapped off leaving an aperture the size of a football in the corner of the car . |
| 5 | Mary , who has said nothing up until now , stirs in her seat in the corner of the room . |
| 6 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 7 | In ten angular jerks and a trip Ranald rose from his seat in the corner by Luch to open the door for Lady Bridhe to leave . |
| 8 | The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front . |
| 9 | Chris trailed back , dragging his bat in disgust , but loudly clapped by his team and the little group of parents around the scorer 's shack in the corner of the field . |
| 10 | The Crystal Palace tram terminus was on a gradient and it was ruled that if the crew wanted to take their break there , in the busmen 's canteen round the corner on the Parade , they must go one at a time and not leave the car unattended . |
| 11 | Long intrigued by the notion of this door , for instance , he elicits yet one more variation on the theme this month by placing a faux-bois door-sculpture in the corner of a room chez Mary Boone . |
| 12 | Black sat in his office staring at a spider 's web in the corner of the ceiling , Gina sat opposite uncomfortable in the silent painful atmosphere . |
| 13 | I was bending my brains to think of a way of introducing Brian Harley into the conversation when the television monitor in the corner of the tent gave me the ideal opportunity . |
| 14 | Dr Hendron 's remarks came in the wake of the murder of Cairnshill Road man Sean Hughes as he worked in Jon David 's hairdressing salon on the corner of the Falls and the Donegall Road at 3.50pm on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 16 | no , about three month 's , just decided to run then the cafe on the corner to cof coffee cavern , well you , you can drop in have a , like you used to have in |
| 17 | Hannen Swaffer — revered almost as the Bernard Shaw of left-wing journalism — used to blow in and write his piece on the corner of someone else 's desk . |
| 18 | He had a white trace of toothpaste at the corner of his mouth . |
| 19 | This series , set in a Boston bar , had become the most popular television comedy of recent years ; and no character was more loved than the mop-headed Norm , whose seat at the corner of the bar seemed the only home he knew . |
| 20 | The men saw the blood at the corner of his mouth . |
| 21 | Not in those houses but there was a , an off-licence at the corner of Street , do you know where Street is ? |
| 22 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 23 | Some quick research around the corner at the New York Genealogical Society . |
| 24 | We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme . |
| 25 | At 1213 hrs the pilot contacted Luton Approach ; he gave his position as passing High Wycombe and requested VFR clearance through the corner of the zone at 2000 feet whilst transponding on code 4321 . |
| 26 | He went to the bar in the corner of the lounge and he poured us both a stiff whisky and soda . |
| 27 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 28 | We did n't have to look far before we found a hollow in the corner of a field , riddled with holes and scattered with fresh earth and droppings . |
| 29 | And as she pulled it out from between the stems the little rose-bowl motif in the corner of the envelope seemed to spring out at her , drying her mouth in trepidation . |
| 30 | We got out of the coach and walked through the gates to the stares of those gathered on the gravel , and over to a low metal hut in the corner of the compound where we were ordered to go inside and sit down in silence . |