Example sentences of "little [noun sg] [prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | We liked this little scene for the corner of a patio : the cane chair is just right for the simple planting around it and extra interest is created by using a large limestone boulder , gravel and creeping plants such as thyme . |
| 2 | Well that that is now accommodation for away supporters down at there is no cover over it as yet , there were plans to make a covered stand of it but er they have n't it has been covered over and that 's where the away supporters still stand to this day and a little bit around the corner at the bottom end , at the railway end as they call it now , not the laundry end . |
| 3 | Just a little bit in the corner . |
| 4 | No , I 'll get mine out I 've got a little dip in the corner ! |
| 5 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 6 | To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma . |
| 7 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 8 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 9 | ‘ You can always tell the ones he did , he used to put a little devil in the corner , do you remember that ? ’ |
| 10 | And that little cross sometimes it 's a little hole on the corner on the angle itself . |
| 11 | I open the door to the little cloakroom in the corner , undecided about which form of relief to try , and hesitate between the brownish lavatory and the greenish tap . |
| 12 | Less honestly , there are some booksellers who have a little man round the corner who will always oblige with a ‘ contemporary ’ painting on the fore-edge of an 18th or early 19th century book . |
| 13 | I know this little restaurant round the corner that serves a delicious choucroute garnie . |
| 14 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 15 | A pretty Israeli girl had been selling magazines in the little paper-shop on the corner . |
| 16 | At last Athelstan found the Golden Lamb , a little tavern on the corner of an alleyway . |
| 17 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 18 | So and smashed all the windows and everything in it erm so what 's that and as I say it was only a scrap van er and now he 'd bought the little chapel on the corner . |
| 19 | Just gon na have to go on the little table in the corner right between |
| 20 | When we go to lunch in the little street round the corner the proprietors ' three-year-old son rushes to meet us . |
| 21 | that , or , prevent that , whereas he knows that little estate round the corner , I know they look after themselves . |