Example sentences of "[prep] one corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gestured towards one corner of the moulded seat . |
| 2 | A cocktail bar , with two or three bar stools in front of it , took up the whole of one corner . |
| 3 | Soldered into one corner of one of the swaying carriages is a solitary , plain , ordinary , short-hair-cutted man clad in a fairly new dark blue suit which does not quite match his black hair edged with grey or his furry , hairy watch strap . |
| 4 | About 125 road miles from Athens , the village is tucked into one corner of a large bay , almost completely enclosed by gentle pine clad hills . |
| 5 | Roll out a piece of white fondant and cut out a quarter circle to fit into one corner of the cake drum . |
| 6 | Insert a wooden chopstick into one corner of the lid and press it into the back corner of the chest as a support . |
| 7 | The face that confronted her with so much earnest goodwill and innocence , and with , she felt mistrustfully , such incalculable thoughts behind it , was square and brown , with a good deal of chin and nose to it , and an odd mouth with one corner higher than the other . |
| 8 | I swooped it so that on each pass it caught the top of the dam wall with one corner , gradually producing a nick in the sand barrier which the water was able to flow through , quickly going on to overwhelm the whole dam and the sand-house village beneath . |
| 9 | There was a television in one corner of the room . |
| 10 | The climber is centre-frame , his offending bolts invisible , but in one corner and easily legible is a mess of graffiti ! |
| 11 | The only exception to this method is when you are laying quarry tiles in mortar ; then , having set out the tiles dry , you start laying in one corner of the room , using battens as guides , and work across the room in bays four or five tiles wide . |
| 12 | King 's Head , Fulham 4 Fulham High St , SW6 ( 736 1413 ) L-shaped room , part corridor , part bar , part dance-floor , with the stage in one corner , ensuring restricted view from virtually everywhere . |
| 13 | There was also , inexplicably , a mountain of Pot Noodle cartons in one corner , just next to a leaflet on the wall reading ‘ Anarchist Society — no need to join' . |
| 14 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 15 | In one corner of the lot was a sad , wet-rotten arch which bore the legend ‘ For Patrons Only ’ . |
| 16 | In one corner is a gas ring , in another a table with some school books on it . |
| 17 | Apart from that there was nothing to show a suspect occupancy but two crushed cardboard cases in one corner . |
| 18 | There were toys in one corner of the big bedroom . |
| 19 | The empty tin cash-box lay gaping open in one corner , twisted and crumpled as if someone had stamped on it repeatedly . |
| 20 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 21 | It was made of fine lawn and had an embroidered monogram in one corner . |
| 22 | It is a very small one , with narrow , herbaceous borders against a wooden fence and a triangular rose bed in one corner . |
| 23 | In one corner was a strange life-size wooden cut-out of a black boy holding a tray . |
| 24 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |
| 25 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
| 26 | On reaching the room he found a chair lying in one corner . |
| 27 | In one corner was a bed made from books and shreds of paper from old magazines . |
| 28 | A polished table was in one corner , with dining chairs askew round it . |
| 29 | The cupola turned out to be a kind of gigantic cauldron erected high in one corner of the building where she had earlier noticed what looked like volcanic lava trickling downwards . |
| 30 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |