Example sentences of "[conj] the corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the climate is dry a yard , a garden or the corner of a field can become a school . |
| 2 | Don moved briskly up the 5a pitch and quickly reached the crux , where the corner was blocked by an impending slab . |
| 3 | Yesterday 's figures suggest that the corner has been turned . |
| 4 | These pieces move about as the faces turn , but we soon notice that the corner pieces move only to corner places , and so on . |
| 5 | One of the problems is that the army of inflation forecasters in the City of London simply do not believe that the corner on inflation has been turned so easily . |
| 6 | ‘ All in all , we now believe that the corner has indeed been turned , although it would be a brave man who would say so categorically with the UK economy still in such an uncertain state . ’ |
| 7 | In restaurants — his tastes were no more sophisticated now than before , but occasionally he would do better than the Corner House — he would still order at the top of his voice , still hoping to be recognized . |
| 8 | If the corner is the end of the run , mark the gutter 50mm past the roof and fit a stop end . |
| 9 | I turn the other way , but it 's difficult to see in the mirror cos the corner 's been broke off . |
| 10 | As a result monstrous tower blocks , not fit for human souls , were erected to replace the neat streets of individual terraced houses , vast impersonal motorways supplanted the agreeably irregular network of real roads , and as part of the dehumanization process , the Great railway stations , the local cinemas , and the corner shops , the familiar landmarks of a lifetime , were swept away . |
| 11 | All traces of glue must be removed from the inside corner , and the corner angle must be checked to an accurate 90° . |
| 12 | And the corner was the Northern jewellers but it 's back to again . |
| 13 | Our street was a charred mess and the corner shop did n't open . |
| 14 | Almost all principles and the corner stone of socialism ie : nationalisation , have been thrown overboard in the scramble to be elected . |
| 15 | For the first two minutes Charlie defended himself well , using the ropes and the corner as he ducked and dived , remembering every skill he had learned at the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 16 | And the corner house is up for sale . |
| 17 | As it fell , it hit on the corner and the door opened and the corner of the door was stressed , literally , you could see stress marks on the wood , but the mirror at the back was in one piece . |
| 18 | Porthos is an excellent two pitch Severe , but the corner of Diedre Jaune ( HVS 5a/b ) is perhaps even better , and can be led in one superb 45 metres runout . |
| 19 | The foreshore was dark as pitch , but the corner street lamps palely illuminated the deck of Maurice . |
| 20 | The chance nearly slipped away with Mickey Lewis ' shot , but the corner sent Digby and his defence into chaos and Oxford skipper , Andy Melville managed to scramble the ball in . |
| 21 | ( This can actually be done because the corner and edge pieces can be removed , leaving the centres attached together , and one can put only corner pieces into corner locations , etc . ) |
| 22 | The top , bottom and side bars are used to alter the window 's height and width , whereas the corner section is used to size the height and width together . |
| 23 | An end gun irrigates a further 100ft when the corner system is fully extended . |
| 24 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 25 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 26 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 27 | The box hedge is solid as a wall as far as the corner , but just round there it ends , and that short side is privet , and there 's a place in it where an old wicket 's been taken out , and the gap has n't grown in completely yet . |
| 28 | Goes in high towards Collimore who turns to the referee and claims that he was pushed as the corner came over . |
| 29 | She could n't help thinking that Cara , who had been known to take the car to go as far as the corner shop to pick up a bottle of milk , would have folded long before this . |
| 30 | She captivated me by her touchingly comic manner ( which the lifeguard also noticed , for the corner of his mouth twitched slightly ) . |