ADJ
- bottom, top
- left/left-hand, right/right-hand
- back, front
- lower, upper
- southern, south-western, etc.
- external, outer, outside
- inner, inside, internal
- opposite
- overhanging, projecting
- sharp
- rounded
- Smooth rounded corners make cleaning easier
- awkward
- Make sure the staircase is well lit, with no awkward corners
- extreme, far, very
- He parked in the far corner of the car park
CORNER + NOUN
- cupboard, seat, table
- The waiter led us to a corner table
PREP
- in a/the ~
- Put your address in the top right-hand corner of the page
ADJ
- street
- There were a lot of young men hanging about on street corners
- sharp, tight
- It's a rather sharp corner and she took it a little too fast
- blind
- I hate coming out of that lane because it's a blind corner
VERB + CORNER
- round, take, turn
- As they turned the corner all the parcels slid to one side
CORNER + NOUN
- shop
- the local corner shop
PREP
- around/round a/the ~
- A white van came round the corner
- at a/the ~
- at the corner of West Street and Park Street Turn right at the first corner
- on a/the ~
- the shop on the corner of Mount Street
ADJ
- quiet
- He found a quiet corner and got on with his work
- little, small, tiny
- Welcome to our little corner of Surrey
- distant, far, far-flung, remote
- a remote corner of Afghanistan
- picturesque
- dark, gloomy, shadowed, shadowy
- She sat in a dark corner of the room
- shady, sheltered
- a cool shady corner of the garden
- forgotten, hidden, obscure, odd, secret
- The box had been tucked away in an odd corner of the attic
PREP
- in a/the ~
- She tucked herself away in a corner and read all day
PHRASES
- the corner of your mind (figurative)
- He pushed the thought back into the darkest corner of his mind
ADJ
- tight
- He was used to having to talk his way out of tight corners
VERB + CORNER
- back/drive/force sb into
- get sb/yourself into
- They had got her in a corner and there was nothing she could do about it
PHRASES
- be in a bit of a corner
- I'm in a bit of a corner over finding staff for Friday evening
VERB + CORNER
- award (sb)
- The referee awarded a corner
- take
- Beckham took the corner and Scholes headed it into the net
- force, win
- He put the goalkeeper under pressure and managed to force a corner
- concede
- James blocked the shot but conceded a corner
- miss
- clear