Example sentences of "[pron] in [art] corner " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll hide ourselves in a corner and celebrate ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll meet ye in the corner pub . ’ |
| 3 | I said very carefully , ‘ Yes , I do see that if your pal Richard is behind this he has put you in a corner . |
| 4 | A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor , and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner . |
| 5 | A wooden kitchen table with some crocks on it , a car battery split long ago , three chairs and a broken clothes horse , a pile of something in a corner that could have been a tramp 's bed , or , indeed , a long-dead tramp . |
| 6 | He himself had always noticed the one in the corner as he passed through , and his friend … |
| 7 | At first came a very senior Sister and went over to the childless one in the corner . |
| 8 | I also have one in the corner of the living room that holds all the dog 's toys and blankets . |
| 9 | And when you 'd got your centre filled in , you used to start again , , one in the corner , one the other corner , one between the eyes , one in the middle and back again . |
| 10 | Have you seen the one in the corner ? |
| 11 | a cream , yeah , a cream telly you know , oh I 'll have that one he says when you sell it , oh Christ almighty , I thought I was , excuse me perhaps I , I would like a teletext one , just get , you know I do n't want , I 'm not sort I do n't like the colour , I 'd rather see a white one in the corner |
| 12 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 13 | The older girls used to stand me in a corner of the playground and throw stones at me . |
| 14 | ‘ Ye kin — I mean , ye 're fit tae meet me in the corner pub ? ’ |
| 15 | At the first sign of activity on the ground floor , he pulled off his jacket and socks , hid them in a corner and positioned himself at the bedroom door , ready to make a dash for the kitchen . |
| 16 | The horse under me got upset and started bucking , and there were suddenly sheep everywhere , but he calmly rounded them up , put them in a corner and sat watching them . ’ |
| 17 | I would pen them in a corner and the job would be over in no time . |
| 18 | Place them in the corners . |
| 19 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 20 | And I have cleaned round him , but you know , as quick as I pick them up and throw them in the corner , he gets them out again . |
| 21 | As soon as the Shivah days of deep mourning were over , Mrs Neumann converted her small front parlour into a shop selling basic foodstuffs and domestic items and set up a camp-bed for herself in a corner of the kitchen by the range so as to rent out the two attic rooms to lodgers . |
| 22 | You do n't want to put him in a corner and have him as an enemy . |
| 23 | Mlle van Williamsburgh was sitting beside him in a corner of the study , by the fire . |
| 24 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 25 | Just occasionally , she caught sight of the cooking pots bustling down the wagon towards Gabriel and pinning him in a corner , and then she would laugh and heave them back to the top of the cart . |
| 26 | He also realised that this was a situation far beyond his metier and summoned the duty staff officer , who arrived resplendent in full ceremonials , pantaloons , highly polished knee-length riding boots , and regulation yellow walking stick , and visited Shaw in his billet and confronted him in a corner , where he held court . |
| 27 | And then , she saw him in the corner of the dim room . |
| 28 | She moved away , left him in the corner of the room and stayed where he could see her clearly . |
| 29 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 30 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |