Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | A regulator 's box was erected on the corner of Croydon Road and Elmers End Road opposite the Robin Hood , in the front garden of No. 103 Croydon Road in accordance with an Agreement reached with Mr. S. G. Gee , the owner of the property , on 16 May 1918 , for £5 per annum . |
| 2 | It was tucked into a corner of Bulak and must have been near the river , for once Owen caught a glimpse of ship masts at the end of a street . |
| 3 | Gracie Fields had a tremendous faculty of projection , perhaps stemming from her old Music Hall days , and she never needed a microphone for her ringing voice ; either belting out ‘ Its the Biggest Aspidistra in the World ’ , or singing gently ‘ Sally ’ , each syllable was heard in every corner of the huge auditorium . |
| 4 | The covered market which was situated on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens since the open market on that south side of the High Road had been put under its cover , was not popular and , in 1937 , it was closed and the site used for a new Station for Ambulances and Fire-Engines . |
| 5 | Also , the Christ Church Vicarage , Which was situated on the corner of Sutton Lane and Heathfield Gardens , opposite Fromow 's Corner on the south-west Corner of Turnham Green , was demolished , the Vicar moving to a new Vicarage which had been built close by , in Wellesley Road . |
| 6 | The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk . |
| 7 | Flack was crushed into a corner , gesticulating , a beetle turned on to its back . |
| 8 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |
| 9 | By now it was the rush hour and he was squeezed into the corner of a carriage by a family of Swedish tourists who talked loudly and without vowels and continuously trafficked maps and guidebooks across him , so there was no chance of getting a look at the diaries or the few folded sheets of paper that were wedged between them . |
| 10 | The sergeant began to have serious worries respecting his car , which was parked round the corner , an open street map of Mansfield on the passenger seat . |
| 11 | Comrades were unlucky not to score in the 11th minute , Colin Crawford picking out Eddie Patterson whose snap shot was turned for a corner by Mark Gillespie , in for the dropped Stephen Eachus . |
| 12 | He cut inside but then shot straight at the goal keeper , and in the seventy second minute , Stein 's low shot was pushed for a corner by Stowell . |
| 13 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
| 14 | Equipment was crammed into every corner . |
| 15 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 16 | Lord Lane , the Lord Chief Justice , described the case 's circumstances as ‘ wholly exceptional ’ and said it was only when Mr Butler was driven into a corner that he drew the sword in self defence . |
| 17 | Her father 's tea was set at a corner of the kitchen table , a pile of oatcakes , cheese , a cold wing of game . |
| 18 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
| 19 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 20 | ‘ John was put in a corner recently and asked about his fitness and said he thought he would be back in November . |
| 21 | He was crouched in the corner by the big tiled kitchen range , his sleeves rolled up and his shirt and trousers covered in white ash . |
| 22 | upsetting , he was stood on the was there , and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of . |
| 23 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 24 | Finally she was backed into a corner by the door , the horse guarding any escape route and the man looking down at her with dark , fathomless eyes . |