Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [art] corner " in BNC.

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1 Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands , for their legs could not bear them .
2 The movies had fought their way out of a corner , leaving saloons , poolrooms , and dance-halls behind , but they had won their way through not so much to middle-class respectability as to classlessness .
3 You lean out of a corner on a trials bike to keep the tyre biting .
4 Schwantz is the master of wrenching the bike upright on to that fatter part of the tyre , jumping on the gas and pulling the tightest , quickest line out of a corner .
5 This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving .
6 Wapnick is tall and long-limbed , and he uses his reach to cut the ball off early in flight and to dig it out of the corners .
7 This is handy , for we can thus spot potential danger and react rapidly to input gleaned out of the corners of our eyes .
8 Not all the Lotus problems had been solved — the car was still very light at the front and had trouble coming out of the corners — but it was certainly thoroughly competitive and Fittipaldi 's confidence was high : especially when he won going away at Jarama in Spain , with only Ickx 's Ferrari providing any real opposition .
9 And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes .
10 Ember 's gaze slid out of the corners of his eyes .
11 She stood lighting a cigarette and looking at my mother out of the corners of her eyes .
12 And he gave me one of his really wicked looks out of the corners of his eyes .
13 She turned to face him and he saw how her skin was shivering , the self-control leaking out of the corners of her eyes , her face breaking up .
14 The same angle was conspicuous in the title story of Naipaul 's previous book , In a Free State , where a coup in a new African country was studied , as it were , out of the corner of an eye ; and it also occurs elsewhere in his work .
15 The island 's public affairs and significant politics can occasionally be seen , out of the corner of an eye , to be no less invaded by contingency and incomprehensibility and futility than the life and times of Jimmy Ahmed , to have the status of rumour , to be little more than a remote and indecipherable response to a random outbreak of violence .
16 Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them .
17 He must have sensed that I was looking at him , he suddenly glanced at me out of the corner of his eyes and , still cleaning the mess tin with his finger , he said quietly , ‘ Why are you staring at me like that , Piper ?
18 And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true .
19 She looked up at me out of the corner of her eye and lowered her voice .
20 He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye , wondering if he dare ask for water to help wash the cake down .
21 Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ?
22 Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze !
23 Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue .
24 ‘ 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 . ’
25 Out of the corner of her eye she saw Prentice moving closer .
26 Agnes looked at Sadie out of the corner of her eye without turning round .
27 She crunched appreciatively and watched the urchin out of the corner of her eye .
28 Out of the corner of her eye she saw a man in a white coat floundering through the snow towards them , and in some intuitive way this increased her anxiety to be off .
29 She was smiling and making money and catching people out of the corner of her eye .
30 He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye .
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