I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a street corner (= a place where streets meet )
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Youths were standing around on street corners.
around the corner
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She ran around the corner and straight into the arms of John Delaney.
corner flag (= flag on a football pitch )
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a free kick near the corner flag
corner shop
far-flung corners/places/regions etc
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expeditions to far-flung corners of the globe
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people flying to far-flung destinations
quiet corner
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Anthony met her in the bar, and they found a quiet corner where they could talk.
round the corner
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I watched the two boys disappear round the corner .
the bottom corner
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Look at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.
the corner/side of your mouth
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A smile lifted the corners of her mouth.
top/bottom right-hand corner
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the bottom right-hand corner of the page
turned the corner
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I watched until he turned the corner .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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The climb lies on a wall just above the east descent route in the back corner of the quarry.
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Tucked into the back corner of the space is the center's resource library and activity area.
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Drab-olive military packages of emergency rations and water are tucked into a back corner of the sphere.
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You can further reduce the boxy look of the tank by disguising the inside back corners with decor material.
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The great men held the room in their gaze, even the back corner by the windows.
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Perhaps Gladys would join the group of Leicester ladies who were fluttering with anticipation in the back corner .
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Three days later the Largemouth pair spawned, over a flat slate at the back corner .
bottom
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Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
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Fold the phyllo, in flag fashion, from the left bottom corner up and over the filling to enclose the spinach.
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The cargo's ultimate destination had been printed neatly in black pen in the bottom left-hand corner of the page.
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Maybe with a dollar sign embossed near the bottom corner .
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Are the bottom corners bruised and in need of building up?
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Hidden on the bottom corner stands an old black and white pub, backing on to the river.
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Wrap the bottom corner with a couple of layers of masking tape to prevent the scraper from cutting the device.
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At the bottom left corner , I have drawn a simple two-colour pattern as shown in Figure 3.
dark
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No voices gibbered at him from dark corners .
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A large emerald ring flashed a spot of light into a dark corner of the room.
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White illuminates dark corners and enmasse provides a still breathing space among more lively shades.
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The pubs were full of people fighting, and big, evil-looking men stood in doorways or at dark corners .
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Raoul looked everywhere - under the chairs, behind all the clothes, in all the dark corners of the room.
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I cried on reading that, quietly, in a dark corner of our hall.
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The passenger was sitting in a dark corner and I could not see his face.
far
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In the far corner a half-opened door led to a bedroom.
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In the far corner was a sagging bed and a cupboard.
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What if they'd parked their planes in a far corner ?
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Another time, a photographer had ventured on to the reef that rose up from the sea at the far corner .
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His eye fell on a set of chessmen ranged on a table in a far corner .
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There were a couple of drinkers in the far corner , but no one noticed me.
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But then, in the far corner of the field I found a medieval buckle.
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Klift pointed to the far corner .
left
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Bear left , across the field to a gate in the opposite left hand corner by a copse.
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The ball clanked off the rim and toward the left corner .
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The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right.
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In the first half of the game I had the feeling again when I was in the left corner with the ball.
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner .
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Fold the phyllo, in flag fashion, from the left bottom corner up and over the filling to enclose the spinach.
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Go left to the corner of Bere Wood.
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McSorley obliged, first propping the poor-skating outfielder up in the left corner , then checking him into the boards.
quiet
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Anthony took him to the Pugin bar where they found a quiet corner protected from the worst of the Pugin wallpaper.
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Feels and I lunched together in a quiet corner of the mess.
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Here in this quiet corner of Co.
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Alvin would go off to a quiet corner with Shook and talk endlessly about art, literature and his current projects.
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In a quiet corner there were already a dozen corpses covered by blankets.
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I was just looking for a quiet corner .
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It had clearly passed by the inhabitants of this quiet corner of Picardy.
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I only wish my dentist were located in a quiet corner of a Wells Fargo branch.
right
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In the right hand corner is a small gate.
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Rookie forward Marco Sturm fed Gill, who found the upper right corner of the goal from the left circle.
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He glanced the ball over Flowers head into the right corner of the net.
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It looks like the Steelers will keep him at right corner for the rest of the season, and perhaps beyond.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner .
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There will be a little clock in the lower right hand corner that will tick down.
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The striker took the ball in his stride and powered it into the top right hand corner from 25 yards.
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Hicks smiled at her absently, forgetting that his smile was missing its upper right corner .
tight
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However, the cover is very easily removed if you need to get into a tight corner .
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The drivers roared round tight corners and skilfully navigated a twisty, bendy and muddy course.
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We fitted a thinner section scroll saw blade to test the cutting ability on tight curves and corners .
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They get the argument out of a tight corner , and make for a less fatalistic scenario.
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However, employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits.
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The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners .
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The moment he emerged on to a flat stretch of road after negotiating a particularly tight corner the explanation was obvious.
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It was a typical women's downhill course: relatively low-speed, but extremely technical with tight corners .
top
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Then midfielder John Collins hit an unstoppable 20-yarder into a top corner .
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You will now appear in the top , righthand corner of the playing area.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner .
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner .
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Falconer's header from a Hendrie cross was going towards the top corner until Schmeichel flung himself across goal.
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He was watching a spider in the top far corner of his room.
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He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner .
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The letter bore a case number and stamp in the top right corner and started with the recipient's name.
■ NOUN
flag
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Harte fired the ball into the bottom corner before heading for the corner flag to celebrate.
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Dyer was almost over for a try but put a foot in touch at the corner flag spoiled the effort.
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With 17 minutes remaining the right-back Mario Melchiot was fouled by Ian Taylor near the left-hand corner flag .
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Then winger Crawford Dobbin ran half the length of the pitch for the final score at the corner flag .
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It was Harlequins who opened the scoring ... Mike Wedderburn taking the scenic route to the corner flag .
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Then Goodman scored a soft goal with his head for a free kick near the corner flag .
shop
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At 5 or 6 years ò Trust them to go to the corner shop to buy milk or a paper.
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Proactive job search Perhaps as a child you were sent with a list to the corner shop .
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In Burnley Wood, a mob of white youths surrounded Amit Stores, a corner shop near the working men's club.
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The residents go to the pub, the local corner shop , the club and they go and play bingo.
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Here he is with his hands full after a buying spree in a corner shop .
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Small corner shops shut as she approached them.
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Willie recognized Mr Miller from the corner shop and the young man behind the mesh in the Post Office.
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Neville looked thoughtfully up the road towards the corner shop .
street
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She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner .
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She says that most desirable street corners already have one or more of the two chains.
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He paused at a street corner and tried to come to a decision.
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Towards the street corner a single papier-maché dragon bobbed in the centre of a circle of dancing men.
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Towering television screens on street corners relayed the proceedings to crowds unable to see Clinton directly.
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Complaints Police have received scores of complaints about dealers openly plying their trade in front of small children on street corners .
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He focused on older kids, because he saw too many of them on street corners getting into trouble.
table
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A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years.
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Madonna shared a corner table with Evans and Rossellini for a while before retreating to the bar area.
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We had managed to squash ourselves into a corner table with two pints of strong winter-warmer beer.
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And there, at a corner table , sitting with an elderly woman and a younger man, was the legendary caddie.
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The six people at a corner table were well known to the proprietor, who saw them regularly in the winter months.
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We took a corner table and sat down.
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Roquelaure was recognised instantly by the head waiter who took them straight to a reserved corner table .
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It was a corner table for four so there was only room for Walter.
■ VERB
cut
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They hadn't learned to cut quite so many corners .
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No one will care if the administration cuts logical corners over so-called rogue states or fading dictators.
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Operators who cut corners will get a licence for only 12 years.
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Therefore I manage it judiciously, trying to cut every corner that I can.
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But still we cut no corners .
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He cut a lot of corners , but even with editing, it affected her.
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We were all turning gently to port as I cut the corner and was slowly closing on the Hun.
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Leese turned harder left and cut the corner of the turn that Shaker had taken, wagging the tail again.
fight
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He had nobody back in Langley who would be willing to fight his corner .
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Jen fought her corner fiercely but Helen knew that she was winning.
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But each is fighting its national corner too.
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She always said he should have stayed to fight his corner .
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Sara Keays has continued to fight her corner .
force
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I don't want to threaten you but you've forced me into a corner .
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You were determined to force me into a corner .
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East forced two short corners which proved fruitless and likewise Antrim had a similar fate.
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From the kick-off, Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards.
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This brought Saints out of their shell and they forced a series of corners that a scrambling Celtic only just survived.
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As better adapted successors emerge, others are forced into a corner .
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Mindful of their situation they began well, forcing a first minute corner and pressing strongly.
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Leeds enjoyed abundant possession last Saturday, and forced 16 corners to their opponents' one.
run
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His cheek was cut and a faint dribble of blood ran towards the corner of his mouth.
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With an expletive or two, Bianchi and Leahy ran to the corner to see where the leak was.
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Charley came running round the corner .
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Ezra slipped out the door and ran around the corner for the phone booth.
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Then the two of them ran round the corner as fast as they could.
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Horne, 73, ran a corner gas station.
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Two of his front teeth had been knocked out and blood was running from the corner of his mouth.
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He ran round the corner of the house.
sit
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Possibly ... Herrmann and Prinz sat at the corner dining-table and ordered.
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The children sat in their corner of the back room and grumbled over their grasshoppers.
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All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage, hoping it would all end.
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Perhaps the child sits alone in a corner of the playground while other children scream and laugh together.
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It had been quite crowded, but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink.
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A yucca tree sat in the corner .
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Vargas sat in the corner drinking coffee and reading a newspaper.
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Miss Minna, her legs crossed, sat on a corner sofa.
sitting
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Then a stranger, who had been sitting unseen round the corner , came up to them.
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As she walked into the Percy Bar the sight of her youngest son sitting in the corner raised Constance's spirits.
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Cantor had been sitting in one corner , legs casually crossed, one arm thrown over the back of the sofa.
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The occupant of the room was sitting in one corner .
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Outsize hands loose on a knee. where did she find him, this no-account sitting in the corner ?
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One of the rats is just sitting in the corner and I wonder if maybe it's smart enough to be depressed.
stand
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Soldiers stand guard on street corners and roam the city at night.
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Holloway went over there to stand on the corner .
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He was standing in the corner , his back against the wall. ` I need a little time.
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A group of people stood on the corner , staring at his car.
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It stood in the corner of a small field, larger and more impressive than any I'd yet seen.
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He would stand on the corner and chat with those passing by.
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Freddie stood on the corner of the turning as lookout for Tommy Green the street bookmaker.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
turn
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Woolley turned a corner and saw Colonel Hawthorn instructing Corporal Hemsley in the about-turn.
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The piglet made short little satisfied grunts and turned ever sharper corners .
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Now I have stairs which actually turn the corner into a splendid hall.
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The pickups passed slowly to the other end of town, throwing distance, then turned a corner .
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Readers became familiar with their Doppelgangers, as if they had turned a corner and unexpectedly confronted themselves in a mirror.
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It was exactly the sort of truth one discovers by turning a corner and colliding with a stranger.
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We were turning the corner into their road.
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But now it has turned the corner , having made about $ 23 million for fiscal 1995.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
blind bend/corner
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A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.
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Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
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The lanes twisted across the spine of land in a series of blind corners and Miranda took each one without changing down.
cut corners
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I want something deeper than the stuff you usually do for me, so don't look for ways to cut corners.
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If I cut corners, I have something left on Saturday to go shopping with.
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If it's rough, the manufacturer has cut corners by not sealing the back edge.
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Men working on the site complained of pressure to cut corners to save time on the delayed project.
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Operators who cut corners will get a licence for only 12 years.
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People cut corners, creating new tracks and damaging the land.
fight your corner
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He had nobody back in Langley who would be willing to fight his corner.
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Jen fought her corner fiercely but Helen knew that she was winning.
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Sara Keays has continued to fight her corner.
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She always said he should have stayed to fight his corner.
have turned the corner
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A superior actor might have turned the corner on this film.
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Even Sandie looks as if she might have turned the corner.
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I hope we have turned the corner.
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The economy may well have turned the corner by the next election.
in a tight corner/spot
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And now here was I in a tight corner and was I going to use violence?
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Did people in tight corners always turn to her?
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Drawbacks are the introduction of a bit more slop in the system and the potential for reduced access in tight spots.
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Eight extra bullets in a tight spot could mean the difference between life and death.
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However, employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits.
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Or a mite more forgiving in a tight spot?
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The better choice here is a crescent-pattern spanner which has angled jaws so that it can be reversed in tight corners.
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You're in a tight spot.
take a bend/fence/corner etc
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But Jack managed to have Bailey taking a corner - and then Bailey heading the flag-kick into the net.
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He was also taking fencing, just because it was new and different.
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Lucker has not been taking corners well.
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Next time she came ... He began fantasising and had to take avoiding action 81 when he took a corner too wide.
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Riding to hounds, taking fences and obstacles along a route dictated by the fox is a very skilled activity.
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They take corners to the far post and have a direct shot at goal from a free kick.
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Vi took a corner seat farthest away from the door.
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We took a corner table and sat down.
the far side/end/corner etc
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At the far end of the house, where her voice had faded, he heard a faucet going on.
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Getting into the precarious cable car, the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.
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He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings.
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Just then, he saw some one walk out of the trees which bordered the far side of the pasture.
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The Ocean-Warming Piglet Long ago, on the far side of our planet, there lived a farmer named Li-pin.
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The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward.
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The young man at the far end of the loom glanced at Maggie, and for an instant their eyes locked.
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There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow, away from the house and the other barns.
the four corners of the Earth/world
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For centuries, the Spanish traveled to the four corners of the Earth in search of new lands.
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Even to the four corners of the world. 38.
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He put the Celts at one of the four corners of the world.
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People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.
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Scholars gathered wisdom and knowledge from the four corners of the world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She picked the tablecloth up by the corners and folded it neatly.
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You have some mustard on the left corner of your mouth.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A large emerald ring flashed a spot of light into a dark corner of the room.
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But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner .
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However, Gav's biggest collar is just around the corner .
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In the corner of his eye he saw the other men on their stools lift their heads.
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In the corners of the room there were vases filled with flowers.
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Keep forward alongside wall on left and then alongside fence on left to gate in corner .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
market
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Think you've bloody cornered the market in love, don't you?
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But if the Conservative Party thought that it was cornering the market in citizenship, they were to be quickly disillusioned.
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He cornered the market in heroes, as it were.
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You've won so many cups, shields and tankards, you've cornered the silver market .
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Most are the product of one extended family-the Jennings-that has cornered the market on Saturday Night Specials.
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The girls who had been in since the start of the war had cornered the market in stripes.
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But I suppose when you set out to corner the thirst market , you corner it all.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England
blind bend/corner
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A combination of blind bends, and high speed frustrations has created a string of accident black spots.
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Miss Defy screeched around a blind bend into the path of an oncoming sedan.
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The lanes twisted across the spine of land in a series of blind corners and Miranda took each one without changing down.
in a tight corner/spot
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And now here was I in a tight corner and was I going to use violence?
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Did people in tight corners always turn to her?
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Drawbacks are the introduction of a bit more slop in the system and the potential for reduced access in tight spots.
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Eight extra bullets in a tight spot could mean the difference between life and death.
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However, employers could find themselves in a tight corner if they attempted to increase employee contributions or reduce benefits.
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Or a mite more forgiving in a tight spot?
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The better choice here is a crescent-pattern spanner which has angled jaws so that it can be reversed in tight corners.
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You're in a tight spot.
the far side/end/corner etc
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At the far end of the house, where her voice had faded, he heard a faucet going on.
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Getting into the precarious cable car, the ebullient engineer had himself hauled to the far side and back again.
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He caught a last glimpse of a grey Mercedes on the far side of the central barrier railings.
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Just then, he saw some one walk out of the trees which bordered the far side of the pasture.
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The Ocean-Warming Piglet Long ago, on the far side of our planet, there lived a farmer named Li-pin.
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The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward.
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The young man at the far end of the loom glanced at Maggie, and for an instant their eyes locked.
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There was a barn at the far end of the hay meadow, away from the house and the other barns.
the four corners of the Earth/world
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For centuries, the Spanish traveled to the four corners of the Earth in search of new lands.
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Even to the four corners of the world. 38.
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He put the Celts at one of the four corners of the world.
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People from the four corners of the world have come to Ontario to make it their home.
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Scholars gathered wisdom and knowledge from the four corners of the world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Douglas was cornered by the killers in the back bedroom of a seventh-floor apartment.
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Hill cornered her at a party just before she left Washington.
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The boys cornered him on a subway platform and began beating him.
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The new Audis corner very well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was cornered outside the school by three apparent gang members wearing red, the emblem of the Nortenos.
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If they are cornered by a predator, mountain goats will not hesitate to use their horns to defend themselves.
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Pupo sits among these Strange white people, ashamed and cornered.
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The building oozed a melancholy yet defiant air, cornered by an unforgiving landscape with which it refused to make any compromises.
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The next day they went into battle with the desperate courage of brave men cornered.
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There are other variations but they all end up with black's king being cornered on h8 or h7.
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Though around Jessica he remained at least somewhat aloof, Kip could be brutal, especially when cornered.
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Toplis was eventually cornered by police, I believe in Cumberland, and the murderer was shot dead whilst resisting arrest.