Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men grabbed a battered old rocking horse from the corner , and rushed it towards Ilse . |
| 2 | Yeah , it 's just in this one top part in the corner |
| 3 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ said Hussey , bent reverently double , and eyeing his widowed kinswoman from the corner of one eye , ‘ if your Grace will but hear me … ’ |
| 4 | She went on , past the blacksmith 's , past the corrugated-iron public lavatory on the corner , plastered with faded posters that peeled and flapped , across the road , through the stepped gap between two old houses whose lath and plaster upper storeys almost touched overhead , and into the little square . |
| 5 | The girls are having to use the public lavatory on the corner and they do n't like it . ’ |
| 6 | Picking her up gently in his mouth he carried her back home , sweeping her flamboyantly over the threshold and into their new abode — his cosy old basket in the corner of the kitchen ! |
| 7 | Viola Machin , seated in a dignified pose on the corner of the kitchen table , her white and pale blue brunch coat billowing around her , found her pose of aggrieved innocence difficult to keep up . |
| 8 | Neath then won a ruck in Bridgend 's 22 and after Laity had committed two defenders , Barclay had a clear overlap to the corner . |
| 9 | But Scunthorpe withstood the pressure and scored in injury time with the very last kick of the match , Ian Helliwell curling a free kick into the corner of the net . |
| 10 | Then Goodman scored a soft goal with his head for a free kick near the corner flag . |
| 11 | The grandfather , a former soldier in India and retired horseman , had had a leg amputated : ‘ he ended up wi' a stump , so he used to sit in this … old chair in the corner … and nurse Aunt Lillie 's children . ’ |
| 12 | From one dim object to another he let his eyes roam , and he saw them all clearly : the Louis Quinze couch between the long windows , the French glass-fronted cabinet in the corner opposite , the sixteenth-century iron-bound chest standing in the alcove , its lid flat against the wall , held there by a pyramid of logs . |
| 13 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 14 | He sat on the wooden chair in the corner and looked at Lambert as if he were a self-confessed criminal . |
| 15 | He made his way to the old barn on the corner of their three acres . |
| 16 | Then , just when they thought that they had finished and were about to leave the room , up pipes a small Scottish voice in the corner which says , ’ What about Scotland ? ’ |
| 17 | An old man in the corner sang Where the water lilies grow And on the jukebox , Johnny sang about a thing called love And it 's how 're ya kid and what 's your name and how 'd you bloody know … |
| 18 | Al-Makesh pointed to a wooden container in the corner of the room . |
| 19 | The old chap in the corner 's got them . |
| 20 | There 's a public house on the corner called the Lighthouse . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll be over there , ’ Graham cut in sharply and indicated an empty table in the corner of the room . |
| 22 | It 's a similar story round the corner at the Citrus Club . |
| 23 | A girl in a duffel coat and jeans was taking an early lunch in the corner , reading a magazine and eating a sandwich from an open plastic container on the seat beside her . |
| 24 | I forgot eggs , ’ he called , and scampered off down the stairs to get some from an early dairy around the corner . |
| 25 | No aside the wee shop at the corner of Street . |
| 26 | N.Z. A Weak Heart : Roddie on his bike in the evening , with his hands in his pockets , doing marvels by that dark tree at the corner of May Street . |
| 27 | Belinda said hello to one of them , Judy Stack , whom she knew from the nurses ' home , then sat on a rather uncomfortable chair in the corner as Faye was examined by a junior obstetrician . |
| 28 | Heads were lolling , one uncle was snuffling in sleep already , from an easy chair in the corner . |
| 29 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 30 | You may be very lucky and find a real treasure round the corner . |