Example sentences of "[art] corner of his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He flicked the corner of his cloak at Izzie to clear her off the table — as if to touch her would dirty his hands . |
| 2 | Madeleine mopped Louis 's eyes with the corner of his napkin . |
| 3 | He came round the corner of his desk . |
| 4 | ‘ Rule of Life ? ’ asked Werewolf out of the corner of his beard . |
| 5 | ‘ Which one 's the conifer ? ’ he said out of the corner of his beard . |
| 6 | He keeps them , like an ape , in the corner of his jaw , first mouthed , to be last swallowed . |
| 7 | He accompanied his words with a defiant glare from beneath his brows and chewed at the corner of his lip . |
| 8 | One morning , someone found his potato-storage pit on the corner of his land ransacked and emptied . |
| 9 | He tried out a badly scratched recording of Dame Nellie Melba singing an operatic aria from Pagliacci which he had found tucked away between a box of rusting tools and a sack of potatoes in the corner of his shed . |
| 10 | Darren , aged 5 years , had been found deliberately passing urine in the corner of his bedroom carpet . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | The feelings may be imagined of the pupil who rashly let fall a slighting reference to Sohrab and Rustum , to be answered by Lewis 's brandishing an old regimental sword of his brother 's which stood in the corner of his room and shouting , ‘ The sword must settle this ! ’ |
| 13 | In the corner of his room stands one of several tanks in his collection , containing a selection of community fish and plants . |
| 14 | He was leaning comfortably into the corner of his seat reading the unmistakable pages of the London Financial Times . |
| 15 | Christopher sat easily on the corner of his office table his Company Sergeant Major ramrod stiff a pace behind on his right . |
| 16 | There was a large bookcase in the corner of his office , stocked mainly with leather-bound volumes ; but the end of the lowest shelf was brightened by the clear colours of a number of paperbacks . |
| 17 | Marx was there , leaning on the door-frame , a hat rammed on the back of his head , a cigar jammed in the corner of his mouth , blinking his bloodshot eyes . |
| 18 | She captivated me by her touchingly comic manner ( which the lifeguard also noticed , for the corner of his mouth twitched slightly ) . |
| 19 | Huckleberry 's tongue was protruding out of the corner of his mouth and flapping in the breeze ! |
| 20 | The door was eventually opened by a scowling man , cigarette hanging from the corner of his mouth , towel around his waist , shaving soap on his face and a razor in his hand , getting ready for his night shift . |
| 21 | He placed the last evil half inch of his yellow-papered cigarette carefully into the corner of his mouth . |
| 22 | The window had , during the summer months , more than its fair share of flies , whilst the proprietor was never to be seen in the shop without a flat black cap on his head and cigarette end dangling from the corner of his mouth . |
| 23 | More blood appeared in the corner of his mouth . |
| 24 | A thread of spittle ran from the corner of his mouth and down his chin . |
| 25 | ‘ Shut up , ’ said Drew out of the corner of his mouth . |
| 26 | The men saw the blood at the corner of his mouth . |
| 27 | A fine trickle of drool leaked from the corner of his mouth . |
| 28 | George ended up at the Private Eye 30th anniversary ball playing the harmonium and singing Lili Marlene with one of his ever-present Silk Cut hanging out the corner of his mouth , but there was no suggestion he was out of control . |
| 29 | On its right-hand side a long scar ran from just behind the ear to the corner of his mouth . |
| 30 | Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth . |