Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 2 | He then produced the £15 and counted it out himself on the corner of the table , not letting the chairman or anyone else do so . |
| 3 | She followed , trying to spot a public phone , and she had just caught sight of one at the corner of the building when he came out of the office , a key in his hand . |
| 4 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 5 | She held Bob 's left hand in both of hers under the corner of the table and gazed at him . |
| 6 | Jo was some 10 yards behind me near the corner . |
| 7 | Are you sure that is n't I think they were agents as well for one round the corner . |
| 8 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 9 | I swam hard and caught up with him round the corner of the old castle . |
| 10 | It was partly because he got a weird buzz out of scaring himself half to death , and partly because he felt it was a kind of exorcism , to convince him he had control over his fears — and the horrors that were waiting for him round the corner of sleep . |
| 11 | She arranged her armful of books on the shelf Thérèse had cleared for her in the corner above the camp-bed . |
| 12 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 13 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 14 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |