Example sentences of "he sit [prep] [art] corner " in BNC.

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1 He sat on the corner of the desk and swung his leg .
2 He sat in a corner , sat very still .
3 All day he walked around the cove , or up on the cliffs ; all evening he sat in a corner of the room , and drank rum and water .
4 He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them .
5 He sat in the corner farthest from the door , a good-looking man in his fifties , with a twinkle in his eye despite three years ' captivity , recalling incidents from his Scottish childhood in amazing detail .
6 At last , when darkness had covered the city , he sat in the corner of a closed taxicab .
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