Example sentences of "[prep] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds 's opening try in the 12th minute had also been a fine effort , spread over 70 yards and involving Schofield , Maskill and Izzard before Coleman went for the corner . |
| 2 | We all want to encourage the winger to have a go for the corner . |
| 3 | Continue on this track , cross Mill Clough and go on past Knipe Farm and aim for the corner of Fernlee Reservoir . |
| 4 | ‘ Get all the braking and gear-changing done and cleared before you take position for the corner , ’ he says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 7 | So what I was doing I was coming into it , I was coming in too fast for the gear , not too fast for the corner , but too fast for the gear . |
| 8 | Well my free kick , he actually got a touch on that as well , he tipped it onto the post for the free kick yes , but I mean even when he bounced out to Mickey Lewis , one of their defenders got a great block from about two yards out to send it out for the corner , which luckily we scored from the corner , so that we got away with it then . |
| 9 | They are ideal for reaching into restricted or less accessible areas such as the corners of rooms , equipment pockets and channels . |
| 10 | To align the instrument with the computer image of the skull , specific anatomical reference points on the patient 's face , such as the corner of the mouth , are aligned to corresponding points on the three-dimensional image . |
| 11 | Dr Gibson ignores it and translates : ‘ as the corner stone of our entire case , ; more cautiously , I translate : ‘ as a final strength ’ . |
| 12 | One thing about my ritzy office accommodation , you get a swell view of the city , with the sea just visible between the corners of two blocks on the other side of the street . |
| 13 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 14 | Figure 16 Jade burial garment of the Han princess Dou Wan from Mancheng in Hebei province , late second century B.C. The garment is made up of 2,156 saw-cut jade plates joined together by metal threads knotted through the corners . |
| 15 | ‘ They 're really going to come after us now , ’ said Billie , pinned to the seat as it accelerated through the corners . |
| 16 | At 1213 hrs the pilot contacted Luton Approach ; he gave his position as passing High Wycombe and requested VFR clearance through the corner of the zone at 2000 feet whilst transponding on code 4321 . |
| 17 | The lion 's share of the braking is done in a straight line but the time comes when the rider must set in motion the chain of events which will take him through the corner . |
| 18 | If a radius is drawn from this centre through the corner of the rectangle , the centre of the arc for the smaller flap is fixed automatically at the point of intersection of the radius and the major axis . |
| 19 | Fold the fabric diagonally through the corner of the hemline and sides of curtain . |
| 20 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 21 | yeah , I think it 's an organ , and that , that is all in those two recesses , now , you know if I find you know that I do n't get anywhere and I ca n't see that I wo n't , but if , because the bathroom is where the dog is there , of course consequently that comes through the corner of the lounge |
| 22 | This time his 38-year-old legs were not quick enough to cut off the corners and trap his quarry for even the slightest roughing-up . |
| 23 | A sensible compromise would be first to use medians to set aside atypical behaviour , and then to apply some form of mean analysis to the median smooth to round off the corners . |
| 24 | One way to smooth off the corners would be to use running means of three on the 3R smooth . |
| 25 | A. M. The worst part of the job was chasing fellers off the corners , a crowd of drunks , especially when you were the only policeman . |
| 26 | The fellows went like that off the corners — never asked to move . |
| 27 | Square off the corners and edges neatly . |
| 28 | Leading off the corner of the square , in Prokopská Street is a house ( 3/625 ) whose strange apsidal shape reveals its origins as a church . |
| 29 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
| 30 | She thought he was going to read it , but instead he tore a piece off the corner . |