Example sentences of "in [art] corner of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she woke up that morning , with just a small hope in the corner of her heart , she found Patsy already awake , sitting upright in the old cot they still shared , his dark brown eyes shining with excitement from under his mop of brown hair . |
| 2 | When she had finished she sat in the corner of her bedroom and wept . |
| 3 | On the way back , she filled a pouch in the corner of her shawl with the edible weeds that grow like tongues of spinach among the crops . |
| 4 | When he burst out against some restriction , delay , inaccuracy or bureaucratic procedure that was choking him , Laura sat with her hands neatly folded staring straight in front of her , a controlled tear welling in the corner of her eye , but never even near to a response . |
| 5 | In the corner of her eye she saw Maurin stir , looking up and gauging whether Durance 's rage was abated . |
| 6 | She caught a movement in the corner of her eye , and looked up . |
| 7 | Whatever happened , whatever was done or said , he was there in the corner of her mind . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh yes , darling ! ’ said Mrs. Mounce , turning her head upwards and sideways , so the smoke from the cigarette in the corner of her mouth missed her eyes . |
| 9 | just in the corner of her mouth . |
| 10 | Do n't force it down , just in the corner of her mouth . |
| 11 | Why smash the hole in the corner of your house ? |
| 12 | It was that kind of country , somehow , safe things looked dangerous , specially in the corner of your eye . |
| 13 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 14 | and just fell over and I just saw this thing in the corner of my eye |
| 15 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 16 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 17 | He keeps them , like an ape , in the corner of his jaw , first mouthed , to be last swallowed . |
| 18 | Ngune lay on the single mattress in the corner of his cell . |
| 19 | Darren , aged 5 years , had been found deliberately passing urine in the corner of his bedroom carpet . |
| 20 | ‘ Honour , ’ repeated Kit , a smile dancing mischievously in the corner of his lips , giving him for a moment the look of a sprite , a red-gold Puck no stranger to mischief . |
| 21 | Iain did n't notice her for a while , but eventually it dawned on him that the blur in the corner of his eye was n't just a blob of grease on his eyelash . |
| 22 | He would get depressed and sometimes you could see a tear in the corner of his eye . |
| 23 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 24 | He had n't seen an image in the corner of his eye , belatedly realised who it could be , and was making his way back on foot to investigate ? |
| 25 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 26 | Marx was there , leaning on the door-frame , a hat rammed on the back of his head , a cigar jammed in the corner of his mouth , blinking his bloodshot eyes . |
| 27 | More blood appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 28 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , whether she indulged in a spot of matchmaking or not , when we got inside that barn I could n't keep my hands off you , ’ Vitor said , and a smile appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | All he could do was sit in the corner of his cage , hoping it would all end . |