Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny bought some milk from Mr Ahmet 's Corner Emporium & Newsagent 's on the corner . |
| 2 | The warren is round the corner of the wood opposite . " |
| 3 | ‘ This damning report blows away the the last remaining pretence that recovery is round the corner , ’ Labour industry spokesman Robin Cook said last night . |
| 4 | He said he 'd met Oliver in the florist 's round the corner on his way to the station . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's a chemist 's round the corner . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps the cathedral is round the corner and that is the Taj Mahal . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1790 Quaker William Kitching opened an ironmonger 's on the corner with Prebend Row . |
| 12 | " The house is around the corner . |
| 13 | 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 . |