Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] the corner " in BNC.

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1 She could almost touch him now , but he was frowning , running his finger over and over the Paisley pattern on the corner of the duvet that overlapped the sill .
2 A voice that called me ‘ old boy ’ suggested that I ‘ toddle over the road and meet me in Greenwich Village at the corner of Bleeker Street and MacDougal .
3 The restaurant , in the former Royal Bank of Scotland building on the corner of Buchanan Street and Gordon Street , will open in June .
4 And after their lengthy and intimate chat , he confided in a naval colleague that ‘ at the earliest opportunity ’ he would visit Janet 's shop in Beauchamp Place around the corner from Harrods .
5 Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office .
6 Marshall , after two months of misery and just one goal since his restoration to the front line , nabbed the second with a perfect lob over Bryan Gunn from the corner of the penalty area .
7 Starting off with the good Presbyterian family of Mr Moffatt at the corner — one of his daughters , Mrs Victoria Mullen , married a Methodist — there followed in order Englands , Magowans , Lyttles , Bells , McClatcheys , Lambs , Ramseys and Pattons .
8 Continuing with the estate map , at Halling Bottom on the corner of Vicarage Road , there stands one house , this was the house known as Forge Cottage which was demolished after the last war .
9 ‘ Now I come to think of it , ’ he said , easing himself down into the depths of his very easy chair , ‘ that Mrs Entwhistle from the corner said there was something about your dad in one of the Sunday papers , I do n't remember which . ’
10 Athelstan sketched a blessing in the air at his tormentor , dismounted and led Philomel past the church of St Magnus on the corner of Bridge Street .
11 Her new husband , William Chinnock , had affiliations with the Zion Chapel on the corner of Catherine Hill and Whittox Lane , and had been baptised there as an infant in 1789 .
12 They took over the Gothic Domenican Church of St Salvator and that of St Clement around the corner , and gradually accumulated a huge parcel of land here .
13 But what about Redbridge RFC around the corner from me in East London .
14 I saw many coins that are found here , and one pasture is called Castle Close at the corner ; they say the foundation of a wall was dug up there . ’
15 Déjà vu — Underwood scores in the corner .
16 At 1213 hrs the pilot contacted Luton Approach ; he gave his position as passing High Wycombe and requested VFR clearance through the corner of the zone at 2000 feet whilst transponding on code 4321 .
17 From the early hours of the morning the unfortunate mali could be seen labouring away , pouring with sweat — despite the heat he still insisted in wearing his thick serge uniform — as he constructed a sort of miniature Mount Fuji in the corner of the front lawn .
18 St Nicholas Cathedral at the corner of our square is a great deep cavern of dusky toned Baroque , the light upheld by the dark shadows which flow in elegant curliques and whisps around the ornate ceiling , along pillars and walls emblazoned with the richness of colour that only an intensely , at times intellectually , emotional and predominantly Catholic country could produce .
19 As Kim tugged T'ai Cho around the corner he could see them coming down the corridor , not forty ch'i away .
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