Example sentences of "[art] corner of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 2 | There were those present who later swore that the Old Stager wiped a glistening something from the corner of one eye . |
| 3 | Gary half-turned , spotted him out of the corner of one eye and began to dig again with great fervour . |
| 4 | ‘ Your Grace , ’ said Hussey , bent reverently double , and eyeing his widowed kinswoman from the corner of one eye , ‘ if your Grace will but hear me … ’ |
| 5 | Out of the corner of one eye Charlie could n't help noticing that one of them was resting his only hand against his only leg . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They went to Cornhill , past Leadenhall and into Aldgate , pausing where a crowd had gathered round a speaker on the corner of Poor Jewry . |
| 8 | St Ives had pencilled a little red spot at the corner of each eye , to make them look bigger . |
| 9 | How do you get from the corner of 168th St. and Fifth Avenue to 184th and First ? |
| 10 | On the corner of Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue , every morning , there is a circular pool of mulch , like a vast bread pizza , like a physical calamity awaiting clearance from some twelve-foot drunk or mutant dog sickened by its own size . |
| 11 | They were like untrained puppies or untrained kittens ; they messed in the corner of any room ’ . |
| 12 | In the corner of another carriage there sits , his face screened by a magazine , some lonely soul who has no one to bid him adieu at this end of his journey or welcome him at the other . |
| 13 | However , Binn 's department store on the corner of High Row and Blackwellgate could suffer greatly because of pedestrianisation , said Mr Neil Setterfield , assistant manager . |
| 14 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 15 | And he was chewing the corner of this rug and it was all soggy and horrible |
| 16 | There is a nice little restaurant just at the corner of this street . |
| 17 | No corner of southern Greece is immune — not even , alas , the Mani . |
| 18 | What happened in Middlesex eventually happened all over England , and as Midland bricks and Welsh slates — and later more unspeakable materials like asbestos and corrugated iron — flooded into every corner of provincial England , the ancient local materials that fitted their own regions so well , for they came out of their very soil , disappeared one by one . |
| 19 | Put some of the filling in a corner of each pastry strip . |
| 20 | Appropriately enough for a photo session with one of the fittest men in the world — capable of dancing for hours without a break — we 'd taken over a corner of top London gym , The Peak , at the Hyatt Carlton Tower Hotel . |
| 21 | I here was hardly a corner of British industry in the Sixties which did not suffer strike action of one sort ; much of it lengthy , acrimonious and ultimately futile . |
| 22 | All his efforts had failed when one day he saw a copy in his local library in a corner of discarded books . |
| 23 | John Bassett occupies a corner of this floor , with a small collection of vibrant oil colours , mostly on abstract themes . |
| 24 | A point is a corner of this cube . |
| 25 | Closet countrysiders may want to pretend their patch is actually a corner of some Sussex meadow and picture it swagged with honeysuckle and waving with ox-eye daisies and scabious . |
| 26 | Rotting is a corner of busy Lanseria is another ‘ all civil ’ DC-3 , the former African Air Carriers ZS-KEX , with the ‘ Viewmaster ’ cabin glazing modification . |
| 27 | The blessed piece of earth over which float these balloons , over which are poised these acrobats , is a corner of painful Czechoslovakia . |
| 28 | And far more likely is the dining room which is no more than a corner of another room . |