Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The third and final Premonition was situated on the corner of the castle walk . |
| 5 | The brown canvas delivery sack was hidden around the corner on a stone shelf , several inches above the rotten humus that blocked the culvert . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eventually , in 1892 , a new site was offered at the corner of Osborne Park , and a new church , the present one , built there . |
| 9 | The nervous little mare had seemed unaccountably quieter , and the straw was flattened in the corner . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | upsetting , he was stood on the was there , and he was stood on the corner and this er I suppose a couple of . |
| 12 | 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 . |