Example sentences of "to the corner of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never saw the mail robber , though Tom played with his children — and caught nits from them , to Nonni 's horror — and I got to know his sister , Elsie : a thin woman with stiff , blonde hair who was never without a cigarette stuck to the corner of her mouth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Prudhoe dashed along the goal line to the corner of his box to keep a misdirected Smith backpass in play , but all the keeper could do was palm the ball to the feet of Loram , who simply squared the ball inside for Fashanu to sidefoot a second . |
| 6 | Andy Murdoch raced to the corner of his box to challenge , and was sweetly lobbed . |
| 7 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 8 | Her measuring glance moved to the corner of his mouth , where the line of his lips was prolonged in a short red scar , and then to his cheek-bone , which bore a suggestive blue stain . |