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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dr Gibson ignores it and translates : ‘ as the corner stone of our entire case , ; more cautiously , I translate : ‘ as a final strength ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fold the fabric diagonally through the corner of the hemline and sides of curtain . |
| 15 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | She thought he was going to read it , but instead he tore a piece off the corner . |
| 20 | He pointed down a street leading off the corner of the square where they were sitting . |
| 21 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 22 | The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work . |
| 23 | The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence . |
| 24 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 25 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 26 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 27 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 28 | He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ? |
| 29 | And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true . |
| 30 | She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice . |