Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mr Wakeham said yesterday that high petrol prices are here to stay , considering what you 've just said , does that mean we can see a three pound gallon around the corner ? |
| 2 | ( You can still buy one cheap in the car park round the corner from Victoria as they 're auctioned off by young Ozzers looking for the fare home . ) |
| 3 | A Ficus benjamina in the corner . |
| 4 | Cranston stopped to enquire directions of one of the market stewards who sat in his little toll booth on the corner of Wood Street . |
| 5 | ‘ It means , what about the department store on the corner ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’ |
| 7 | However , Binn 's department store on the corner of High Row and Blackwellgate could suffer greatly because of pedestrianisation , said Mr Neil Setterfield , assistant manager . |
| 8 | If the Musée Bonn at is plush and metropolitan , the Musée Basque round the corner is local and very homely . |
| 9 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 10 | All the while you were building this future I knew there 'd come a morning like this , when I 'd smile sadly as I left you , when I 'd give a last half wave at the corner , when I 'd set my face to the reality of the serious work ahead . |
| 11 | The chamber had priestly vestments draped on dummies like olden days tailors might have used , and I identified it at once by the basin and marble slab in the corner . |
| 12 | Boss Man tumbling out of the ring , Berzerker dragging him back in , Boss Man pulling hair , Berzerker slamming Boss Man into the corner , Boss Man retaliating with biff-wham-pow punches , Boss Man belly-flopping onto the deck , Berzerker straddling him , yanking his head back as if to break his neck . |
| 13 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 14 | Roping up , we moved together for 200 to 300 feet to the foot of the first big ice pitch in the corner system . |
| 15 | Philip saw what he had n't seen before , a ‘ For Sale ’ notice stuck in a holly bush by the corner of the house . |
| 16 | Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay . |
| 17 | The tavern was just near the Custom House on the corner of Thames Street , a grand , spacious affair with a green-leaved ale-stake pushed under the eaves from which hung a huge , gaudily painted sign . |
| 18 | There was a Post Office on the corner opposite the Post Office chapel , Post er opposite the Baptist chapel and er up the back yard there , there was this premise , it was behind a pub called the Beehive and erm I rented it out there and er that was nextdoor to and the castings was a shilling a pound and er |
| 19 | It was just a very low part , there was a little shopping area just round there at the time er , a butcher 's shop and a greengrocer 's shop and a Post Office , Street was the Post Office on the corner , and then Street and Road which lead down into , Lane and just round oh just round there you see , but I was born at the last house in the Street almost at the bottom of Street . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a post office around the corner from where I live , and every Thursday morning the pensioners start queuing outside from about half-past eight , whatever the weather . |
| 21 | Menzies the old bon vivant had not a fraction of Atholl 's strength , he would not dare to turn them away , and if he did they would go in there with sticks and clubs and — As Cameron felt his anger rising , he swallowed it , took up his own cherrywood stick from the corner , and went hack outside . |
| 22 | He aimed a noisy jet of urine into the metal bucket in the corner , then emptied phlegm from his throat in a series of growls . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His large oak chair in the corner was sacred , and the words that he uttered from that privileged seat were truly spoken ex cathedra . |
| 25 | A MAN aged 20 , not named , was stuck in a phone box at the corner of Mersey Road and Aigburth Road , Liverpool , for more than an hour after getting his fingers jammed in a slot in the instrument . |
| 26 | Hope no-one will miss the phone box on the corner … |
| 27 | And lying back with a smile , he glances over towards the colour TV in the corner of the room . |
| 28 | The demolition and clearage of the old site allowed the erection , during the following year , of the new Fire Station , complete with practice tower , the position giving easier access to the surrounding neighbourhood compared with the restricted access from the old fire station position on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens . |
| 29 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 30 | Shortly after he started at the restaurant he told Wayne that he was moving to Mrs O'Neill 's boarding house on the corner of Main Street and Railway Avenue . |