Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the crowd sang Flower Of Scotland deep into the final quarter of the match , Hastings responded with a brilliant diagonal run off a dummy scissors which would have brought a try for Reed in the corner but for courageous defending from Davies . |
| 2 | The upshot was she got herself a room in a house full of artists round the corner . |
| 3 | Our plate shows — originally back to front , as is characteristic of the process , but corrected here — a vista of Whitehall from the corner of Trafalgar Square . |
| 4 | A. M. I went into Lime Street one night at ten o'clock and found a crowd of lads on the corner of Skelhorne Street coming out of the pub . |
| 5 | The imposition of heavy death duties payable in the 1930's , led to the sale of the original nursery land , on which three blocks of flats were built — Beverley , Belgrave and Beaumont Courts , but the little parade of shops on the corner of Walpole Gardens , just across the road from the old nursery , is still named Fromow 's Corner . |
| 6 | Nor the neighbours , nor the postman and the milkman , nor the shopkeepers in the run of shops round the corner . |
| 7 | He had a white trace of toothpaste at the corner of his mouth . |
| 8 | The old woman was crouched like a bundle of rags in the corner of the hut and Simon was standing in the open doorway . |
| 9 | A heap of rags in the corner suddenly stirred and came to life and Taplow , loaded with chains , got to his feet . |
| 10 | The steady trickle of blood from the corner of his mouth was dripping from his chin onto his coat front . |
| 11 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 12 | He unhurriedly placed the length of metal across the corner and jammed his foot against the bottom . |
| 13 | At Leeds , for example , not only are fans separated in this way , but a wedge-shaped piece of terracing at the corner of the visiting fans ' terrace is designated a ‘ no-man's-land ’ , surrounded by high fencing , and kept empty . |
| 14 | Decor : The tank bottom is covered with gravel , with a large piece of bogwood in the corner . |
| 15 | Er , you would n't have a great big stack of paper in the corner of the room . |
| 16 | There was a fleck of amusement at the corner of Captain Rudakov 's mouth . |
| 17 | The change of style at the corner of Downing Street , on the other hand , would provide no greater contrast ‘ than occurs at every turn in the Grand Canal at Venice where Gothic and renaissance palaces constantly alternate to the great satisfaction of the artist ’ and would avoid the ‘ stereotyped monotony of a single style ’ . |
| 18 | At present the London Implementation Group smells too much of hole in the corner deals : the working part of the group consists only of two named people , one of them a former Thames regional chairman , and the ordinary members of the specialty review committees ( see p 589 ) and of the all important Primary Health Care Forum had not yet been announced as we went to press . |
| 19 | Smith questions whether the group will be able to explain what is happening to staff and patients and says that it ‘ smells too much of hole in the corner deals . ’ |
| 20 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 21 | But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house . |
| 22 | On the chest of drawers in the corner of the room was Malik 's newsletter : SPRING NEWS FROM THE ISLAMIC SCHOOL WIMBLEDON . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like a shopfront with a little bit of dust in the corner . ’ |
| 24 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 25 | But on the other hand as is often the case , there 's so much that you 've got you do n't need , that when you finish your removal you want a whole lot of boxes in the corner out the way until you 've sorted er everything else out . |
| 26 | The Church Commissioners have been granted outline planning permission for residential development on a plot of land at the corner of the main road and Colliery Road at Auton Stile , Bearpark . |
| 27 | She noticed now that there was a kind of cupboard in the corner which was likely to contain a washbasin , and a single bed , tucked in with a plaid rug . |
| 28 | As the coats separate to take a flight of stairs each , there 's a screech of tyres round the corner and a big old-style Granada lurches to a halt behind them . |
| 29 | F.W. De Klerk was also there and he was annoyed and he had an animated talk with Tshwete in the corner of the room ’ . |
| 30 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |