Example sentences of "in one corner " in BNC.
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1 | There was a television in one corner of the room . |
2 | The climber is centre-frame , his offending bolts invisible , but in one corner and easily legible is a mess of graffiti ! |
3 | The only exception to this method is when you are laying quarry tiles in mortar ; then , having set out the tiles dry , you start laying in one corner of the room , using battens as guides , and work across the room in bays four or five tiles wide . |
4 | King 's Head , Fulham 4 Fulham High St , SW6 ( 736 1413 ) L-shaped room , part corridor , part bar , part dance-floor , with the stage in one corner , ensuring restricted view from virtually everywhere . |
5 | There was also , inexplicably , a mountain of Pot Noodle cartons in one corner , just next to a leaflet on the wall reading ‘ Anarchist Society — no need to join' . |
6 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
7 | In one corner of the lot was a sad , wet-rotten arch which bore the legend ‘ For Patrons Only ’ . |
8 | In one corner is a gas ring , in another a table with some school books on it . |
9 | Apart from that there was nothing to show a suspect occupancy but two crushed cardboard cases in one corner . |
10 | There were toys in one corner of the big bedroom . |
11 | The empty tin cash-box lay gaping open in one corner , twisted and crumpled as if someone had stamped on it repeatedly . |
12 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
13 | It was made of fine lawn and had an embroidered monogram in one corner . |
14 | It is a very small one , with narrow , herbaceous borders against a wooden fence and a triangular rose bed in one corner . |
15 | In one corner was a strange life-size wooden cut-out of a black boy holding a tray . |
16 | The dividing wall was placed so a well established laburnum remained in one corner of their garden . |
17 | When in August 1988 the overstretched Health Authority belatedly sent out a questionnaire enquiring about symptoms that might have been suffered as a result of drinking the water , one went to 450 ‘ occupants ’ of a graveyard in St Tudy , which happened to have a tap in one corner . |
18 | On reaching the room he found a chair lying in one corner . |
19 | In one corner was a bed made from books and shreds of paper from old magazines . |
20 | A polished table was in one corner , with dining chairs askew round it . |
21 | The cupola turned out to be a kind of gigantic cauldron erected high in one corner of the building where she had earlier noticed what looked like volcanic lava trickling downwards . |
22 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
23 | High up in one corner was a camera aimed at the desk . |
24 | Our house in Dublin would fit in one corner of it . ’ |
25 | In one corner stood a gas-stove on which a black kettle simmered gently . |
26 | In one corner stood a case of stuffed fish whose glassy eyes seemed to gaze with malevolence at the newcomers . |
27 | There was a huge fireplace in one corner , simply crying aloud for masses of logs , and near it was an old settle . |
28 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
29 | In one corner is the Brass Rubbing Centre , where rubbings can be taken of the Washington brasses and arms amongst others . |
30 | They had to pile it deeper in one corner to make a space to spread the chillies — five lukals of fleshy scarlet pods to be dried a crackling brick-red to last throughout the year . |