Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the corner [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 2 | At in we 'd just turned round the corner and it conked out . |
| 3 | " We are planning to have a Victorian summerhouse built in the corner so the tiles will then be inside it . " |
| 4 | A smaller bitmap can be tiled , as this is , or you could have a small object placed in the corner or centred . |
| 5 | She was moving to the great gates and before Maggie could react the white-gowned figure had gone around the corner and out of sight . |
| 6 | But when when they showed you in the house there was just like old cardboard boxes just sort of thrown in the corner and and just sort of paper carrier bags and polythene bags just sort of slung there . |
| 7 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 8 | upsetting , he was stood on the was there , and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of . |
| 9 | Aye , she must have lived around the corner but she was the . |