Example sentences of "the corner of [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie twisted the corner of her pillowcase into a tight spiral and chewed it . |
| 2 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 3 | He saw her raise her arm to touch the corner of her mouth with her handkerchief , and when she turned her head the features were blurred like a lump of clay when the wet cloth is removed . |
| 4 | Seeing the betraying movement , his hand slid down to close lightly around her throat ; then he touched his lips to the corner of her mouth with delicate precision before planting a series of soft baby kisses along the clean line of her jaw . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm — ’ She looked round to see no one was in earshot , then mumbled the words quickly out of the corner of her mouth as if they were not really her responsibility : , I 'm sorry . ’ |
| 6 | Her eyes were as dark as a rotten egg , and a tear of blood ran down alongside her nose to the corner of her mouth like a symptom of regret . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She dabbed the corner of her eye with a black-edged handkerchief . |
| 9 | Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round . |
| 10 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 11 | I glance out of the corner of my eye towards Dixie . |
| 12 | We lie together beneath the crumpled warm sheet , and a tear trickles from the corner of my eye as if Jancey was dead . |
| 13 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 14 | He flicked the corner of his cloak at Izzie to clear her off the table — as if to touch her would dirty his hands . |
| 15 | He spat blood , and a thin trickle painted a red line from the corner of his mouth to his jawline , whence it dripped onto his coat lapel . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone , and his tattooed arms rested on the desk in front of him , which was covered with mementoes of his Legion career . |
| 18 | They were all Altun family retainers of long standing — men whose first and only concern would be to protect the interests of the Kha-Khan — and Burun watched them out of the corner of his eye in case it occurred to Nogai to send Sipotai warning . |
| 19 | Seeing his friend cowering in the corner of his cage at the mercy of the teachers , he felt the tears swell up in his eyes . |
| 20 | Thistle goalkeeper Craig Nelson inexplicably raced to the corner of his area for a through ball , only to stop , allowing Allan Moore to nip round him and cross for John Davies to scramble the ball home . |