Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The houses were each slightly different from each other ; here a window was larger , there a door had been moved round the corner — no-one family 's was quite the same as his neighbour 's . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're living round the corner in the council yard . |
| 3 | We 're going round the corner to the egg man . |
| 4 | No , they 're going round the corner . |
| 5 | Depending which way you 're coming round the corner . |
| 6 | And if you 're coming round the corner you 're not gon na knock that are you ? |
| 7 | Erm yeah , the the the axe to grind is is yes , I pick up the the the political stick here er , that was you know , that that , you know from the other the other end to you and yeah , yes I also think we 're being beaten with a with a with a stick here for three R's er , if we 're forced into the corner of having to use an ignorant white hall idiots er |
| 8 | ( They 're sitting at the corner of a teashop table , say . ) |
| 9 | However , Liberal Democrats believe that the cabinet is already too large and that such a proposal risks sweeping the issues that need to be addressed into the corner . |
| 10 | In 1783 ‘ returning thanks to those gentlemen who have been pleased to employ him with surveying , drawing etc. ’ he announced that a school would be opened at the corner of Tassel Street , near Ridgefield , for the instruction of young gentlemen , in the arts of drawing and painting . |
| 11 | I was a bit worried about how the string-balance would work out on this guitar , since the pickup has to be bent around the corner on the Lowden 's split-saddle channel , but everything 's fine . |
| 12 | The smile trembling to be born at the corner of his mouth was even more active than usual . |
| 13 | Thereafter the truly experienced Phillips-watcher will know that he is to be found in the corner of the studio conducting a vehement argument with himself on the subject of whatever he just did n't tell you , and will shortly be sending an assistant back to pick up his hat . |
| 14 | Trevor would be put in the corner — and Jackie as well . |
| 15 | He is the third man to be murdered on the corner of the Donegall Road and the Falls Road in the past two years . |
| 16 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 17 | After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing . |
| 18 | Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps . |
| 19 | An hour later the twins and George were waiting on the corner with their baskets , bags and gas-masks . |
| 20 | I followed him and saw him join some of his mates who were waiting on the corner . |
| 21 | The pick-up truck being screeched round the corner by a masterful hero , the soft drink sipped by the teenage lead actress — both products paid good money to be there . |
| 22 | Pat Ayers quotes one of those same street people : ‘ Just say you were standing on the corner , now if you had seen a policeman coming over the bridge … you automatically moved . |
| 23 | It was the night of the school disco and a group of parents were standing in the corner as the kids enjoyed themselves on the dance floor . |
| 24 | More incredible was that all of this violence , all of this blood and gore , all of this inhumanity and human sacrifice was being conducted in the corner of our living rooms , because suddenly it was also the nightly fodder of the television stations , who were only just realizing the potential of on-the-spot coverage of such despicable yet compelling viewing matter . |
| 25 | But Cardiff continued to threaten , Hill being tackled into the corner flag after good work by Hall and Wintle , who shortly afterwards was released by Moore on the short side and was only prevented from scoring by Stephens 's fine cover tackle . |
| 26 | But Cardiff continued to threaten , Hill being tackled into the corner flag after good work by Hall and Wintle , who shortly afterwards was released by Moore on the short side and was only prevented from scoring by Stephens 's fine cover tackle . |
| 27 | My three trunks were upended in the corner ready for Curtis to send on the train . |
| 28 | The ramp is moved around the corner of the sports centre into perpetual shade . |
| 29 | Tolkein died in 1973 and is buried in the corner of a cemetry on the outskirts of Oxford . |
| 30 | Just when you are alerted to one con trick , it seems someone else is waiting around the corner with another devious way of getting you to part with your money . |