Example sentences of "be in [art] corner " in BNC.

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1 ‘ So , when you 're in a corner , take the bull by the horns — in this case the bull being Roy Buchanan .
2 He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place .
3 Meanwhile I had to get Harry well propped so that he would n't fall forward and drown after all , and to do that I reckoned we needed to be in the corner .
4 Jill ( 4.6 ) wanted the chimney to be in the corner but Ian insisted on the middle and won .
5 with her being in a corner Jane
6 They are ; and he 's pretty much the way they 'd constructed him , except that he 's in the corner , bent over and moaning .
7 It 's in the corner look .
8 because it 's in the corner
9 Yeah and there 's er as you go over the top there 's like a postman 's passage and you go past where you turn into it there 's in the corner there .
10 A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled .
11 and then Jasmine Flowers is in the corner , and then the salon is just at er it joins on to Jasmine Flowers .
12 mid-week , when he was in a corner seat
13 His mother had done them — her name was in the corner .
14 By her fireside there was a settee and a table , ‘ and old granny was in the corner .
15 Situated as it was in the corner of rural Essex , immediately adjacent to the sprawling East End of London , West Ham was subject to diverse influences ; in the final analysis , however , its growth can not be seen as integral to either of its neighbours .
16 At my Mum-in-law 's the sink was in the corner , not under the window where it is now …
17 Their table was in the corner by the juke box ; pop songs from the 19605 made an aural barrier between them and the rest of the clientele .
18 Corbett suddenly realised he was in the corner of the hall .
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