Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] a corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arches exhibition organisers had placed a dinosaur around a corner and asked them to deal with it . |
| 2 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 3 | Then a bearded man in a bowler hat and overcoat came in , looked around and found himself a seat in a corner . |
| 4 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 5 | It is not sufficient that the accused takes the car as a joke , as happened in Stokes [ 1982 ] Crim LR 695 ( CA ) , where the accused pushed a car round a corner in order to create the impression that it had been stolen . |
| 6 | My skin crawled , and I shivered a bit as I stood there , desolate as a child in a corner . |
| 7 | The sons with their wives had the rooms , and the mother slept on a wide divan behind a curtain in a corner of the courtyard . |
| 8 | A charge in a corner has three images ( Fig. 2.34 ) but there are as many as five images in a wedge of 60° ( Fig. 2.35 ) . |
| 9 | In a room at a corner of the house a man fiddling with coffee cups looked up briefly , said good morning , and carried on fiddling . |
| 10 | When he 'd recovered , he went to a suitcase in a corner of the room and took out a T-shirt to use as a swab . |
| 11 | Hunched in a coat in a corner |
| 12 | Balmoral 's is particularly homely , with a fishing-rod in a corner and a tea-tray in waiting , complete with almond cake . |
| 13 | And then I began to notice that the pictures on the walls were all prints of cavalry regiments , and a hatstand in a corner was n't really a hatstand but another empty shell case with a clutch of regimental flags standing in it . |
| 14 | Morris replied that he would certainly do so , but only for money , and passed on , taking up a position in a corner of the room . |
| 15 | Scorers for Norway were Flo ( Sheff Utd ) with a tap-in from a corner-kick , Fjortoft with his special right-left move alone with the keeper form a back-flick header from Flo and finally Johnsen ( from Lyn , Oslo a team Leeds beat 10–0 way back then in the european cup ) with a header from a corner kick . |
| 16 | They chose a table in a corner . |
| 17 | The bar was still empty , and we found a table in a corner where we could talk without much risk of being overheard . |
| 18 | She tweaked the pale blue hat she was wearing with a look of satisfaction and walked into the café to a table in a corner . |