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Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] corner " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab .
2	And you can actually see it from everywhere in the club except for that corner there .
3	‘ I have a complimentary ticket for Dangerous Corner , ’ the reporter said in a business-like way .
4	Well what a waste of bloody corner , were n't it ?
5	Think of that corner of the glass .
6	The war seemed to have swept away the slightly homosexual attitudes of that corner of the pub , for which Charles was thankful , though not feeling particularly able for the brittle heterosexual backchat around him this evening .
7	Come out of that corner , let down your breeches , and bend over the bench . ’
8	He 's typed his way out of that corner , no trouble .
9	Could Eddie have run out of that corner deliberately because he could n't face the consequences of his gambling ?
10	Emerge into next field , where go forward and slightly left , passing to right of projecting corner of hedge coming down from left to take stile at corner of field into allotments .
11	In summer the skilifts convert to chairlifts and , combining the use of two stages of chairlift with some walking it is possible to ascend to the 1,922m ( 6,304ft ) summit with its commanding oversight of this corner of the cantons of Schwyz and Uri .
12	Get yourself out of this corner , Robbie thought moodily .
13	There were three men and four women in the cast of Dangerous Corner , all of whom , save one , were under contract for the season .
14	The ‘ stopping rehearsal ’ of Dangerous Corner began at ten o'clock on Monday morning .
15	Neil Butterfield was driving the roadsweeper along the A66 towards Scotch Corner when he overtook a pick-up van towing a trailer , Richmond magistrates were told .
16	And there was double delight for the Irish contingent as Ronnie Smyth 's under-16 squad had earlier set the ball rolling by overturning a 2–0 deficit to beat the Welsh 3–2 , thanks to a Colin Hanna hat-trick of short corner conversions in the last 15 minutes .
17	I want one of those corner ones anyway .
18	He gestured towards one corner of the moulded seat .
19	A cocktail bar , with two or three bar stools in front of it , took up the whole of one corner .
20	They came down on the Pennines to Alston before joining the A66 and heading East for Scotch Corner .
21	Angry motorists on the A66 near Scotch Corner , North Yorkshire , complained that she kept ‘ stopping and starting ’ .
22	because he said that when I came into that corner I pulled in I 'd slowed too much and then had to drive round , drive round the corner with my left foot flat on the floor and I thought oh , should n't your left foot be flat on the floor when you corner and that 's probably what he was getting at , as I could off been slipping the clutch .
23	I 've mentioned in the past that vinyl does n't adhere to itself with wallpaper paste , a simple and quick-to-use latex adhesive being the most effective way of dealing with normal corner overlaps .
24	The man took out two small whistles and , pushing one into each corner of his mouth , began to play a strange , rhythmic , haunting tune .
25	She threw the car into each corner , savouring the feeling of control , the sound of the powerful engine fading into the calm winter 's night .
26	Then , snip diagonally into each corner of the paper rectangle , to a depth of 5cm ( 2inches ) .
27	Er , we , we , we , we do n't want to , we have a go it 's a definite government policy that we will , we will , we are forced into this corner , and as I say , it 's the disadvantaged who suffer every time .
28	That 's up this corner behind me .
29	Herbert Read , in a conversation with Stephen Spender during this period , suggested that Eliot was lacking in affection for " perhaps everyone " and that he wished " to slink away into some corner and die " .
30	By half-time , though , the Ernst and Young North Premier League champions were 2–1 ahead with short corner goals from Peter Skates and Carl Bennett .